Modernization in Relation to Personal Values of Adolescents

The study was intended to find out the relationship of Modernization with Personal Values of adolescents. For this study, 200 adolescents, from Government and private schools of Ludhiana district of Punjab state of India, were selected as sample by following the random sampling technique. The data were collected with the help of Modernization Scale developed by Singh, Tripathi and Lal (2012) and Personal Values Questionnaire developed by Sherry and Verma (2010). The data obtained were put to statistical analysis using t-test and Pearson’s product moment correlation. The results of the data analysis revealed that there is no significant difference of mean scores of Modernization among adolescents with respect to their gender, locale and type of school. Further, no significant difference of mean scores of Personal Values of adolescents was found with respect to their gender and locale. However, with respect to type of school, a significant difference of mean scores of Personal Values of adolescents was found. Personal Values of adolescents from private schools were significantly higher than those of government school adolescents. Furthermore, no significant difference was found in the mean scores of Personal values of less modernized and more modernized adolescents. From the values of correlation, it was concluded that there is no correlation between Modernization and Personal Values of adolescents. Hence no significant relationship was found in Modernization and Personal values of adolescents.