SOCIAL SUPPORT AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG ADOLESCENTS

This paper deals with the issue of social support and achievement motivation in the adolescents. This study was to find out the impact of social support on achievement motivation of adolescents. The participants of the study were 100 th th students of class 11 and 12 . In the sample of 100 adolescents, 50 students were male and remaining 50 students were female. All students belong to age group 14 years to 17 years. Two scales were administered on them. The social support questionnaire was constructed by Ritu Nehra, P.Kulhara and S.K Verma and the achievement motivation scale was constructed by O.P Misra and S.K Srivastava. It was found that social support and achievement motivation was higher in females as compared to males. Thus, female adolescents perceived more social support and showed high achievement motivation.