SELF-DISCLOSURE AND VALUES OF ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

The present study investigated self-disclosure and values of adolescents in relation to their school environment. The study is also aimed at finding out the difference between adolescent students studying in Government senior secondary schools and Private schools, location (urban and rural) and gender (male and female) in terms of their self-disclosure, values and school environment. A sample of 600 students studying in government and private senior secondary was comprised from five districts of Haryana state. The obtained ‘r' values for self-disclosure and values with school environment are .186 and .127 respectively which are more than the table value .115 at the 0.01 level of significance. This implies that a positive and significant relationship exists for self-disclosure and values with regard to school environment. Therefore, the hypothesis is accepted at the 0.01 level of significance. It indicates that school environment contributes to self-disclosure and values. It can be interpreted that school environment may be more effective in self-disclosure and values of adolescence. In the differential analysis organization set-up (government and private) and gender (male and female) found to be significant difference in self-disclosure and school environment in opposition to values. It is also revealed that urban and rural adolescents differ significantly on self-disclosure and no significant difference in terms of area of values and school environment. Thus, it can be conclude that school environment is an important factor to enhance personality traits of healthy self-disclosure and values of adolescents.1