Abstract: Attitudes, an aspect of personality, are formed and changed in accordance with the characteristics of the societies, groups and cultures. Social attitudes are characterized by consistency in response to social objects. It determines the response of the individuals towards different social, national and international problems. The emerging sexuality that accompanies adolescence poses fundamental challenges for young people. These include adjusting to the altered appearance and functioning of a sexually maturing body, learning to deal with sexual desires, confronting sexual attitudes and values, experimenting with sexual behaviors, and integrating these feelings, attitudes, and experiences into a developing sense of self.Adolescents’ responses to these challenges are profoundly influenced by the social and cultural context in which they live.Modern youngsters live in an era of sex revolution. Since last three decades there has been a paradigm shift in the sexual behavior and responses of the college girls. They have acquired more open attitudes towards the sex related issues. In the present study, the restrictive and permissive attitudes of college girls towards sexual behaviour have been envisaged in five different Girls colleges in Patna. The residential area, size of the family and income level and peers has been formed as independent variables. With the objective of investigating into the effects of family income level on attitudes towards permissive and restrictive sexual behavior the standardized Sex behavior Attitude inventory (Yashwir, 1977) and one self-made questionnaire seeking personal information were applied to a sample of 200 subjects of proposed five different Girls colleges of Patna. Following this rationale, the scores in different criteria were calculated separately. Means and S.Ds of the attitude area were calculated for both groups and their sub groups. After this, t-test was applied to know the significance of the difference between mean scores of the group and sub-groups. The value at P<0.01 were considered significant. It was observed that nuclear family (NF) subjects displayed significantly higher attitudes towards permissive sexual behaviour and significantly lowers attitudes scores towards restrictive sexual behavior than the joint family (JF) subjects in both the married and unmarried groups. The findings of the present study is expected to bring to light the attitude constellation of unmarried girls students, by and large socially and sexually disadvantaged section of the Indian society, along with that of married girl students and is expected to offer valuable guidelines for facilitating social changes by altering the attitudes of these sections, wherever required through a judiciously planned psychological program of re-education.
Keywords: College girls, Attitudes, Permissive, Restrictive, Sexual behavior, joint family, Nuclear family, Psychological analysis.
Title: Convincing role of Family Structure in Governing Sexual Behaviors of College Girl Students: A Meta Psychological Approach
Author: Dr. Anu Srivastava
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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