Dr. Shalini
International Journal of Rural Development, Environment and Health Research(IJREH), Vol-10,Issue-1, January - March 2026, Pages 1-6, 10.22161/ijreh.10.1.1
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Article Info: Received: 17 Sep 2025; Received in revised form: 22 Oct 2025; Accepted: 27 Dec 2025; Available online: 05 Jan 2025
Adolescence is a critical period of capacity building. Children and young people have to be supported to develop their skills. Adolescents have the right to take an active part in their own development, survival, protection in the family, in schools, child welfare institutions, orphanages, the media, in the community and at national and international levels. The present study was done in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana State. For the study 200 girls and 200 parents (200 fathers and 200 mothers) were selected randomly from the selected schools and villages. The present work was done to find the association between different variables of school and family environment. It was found from the results that in rural area that majority of adolescent girls with average (32%), low (20%) and high (14%) parental encouragement had somewhat preferences for jobs followed by most preferences (10%) for jobs. In urban area, majority of adolescent girls with average (38%) and low (18%) parental encouragement had most preferences for jobs and only 20 percent adolescent girls with high parental encouragement had somewhat preferences for jobs in Hisar District whereas in Bhiwani it was found that in rural area that adolescent girls with average (32%), low (20%) and high (18%) parental encouragement had somewhat preferences for jobs. In urban area, adolescent girls with low parental encouragement had most preferences while adolescent girls with average parental encouragement had somewhat preferences for jobs.