TRUANCY IN RELATION TO NON - VERBAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The present study focussed on studying the variable of truancy in relation to non - verbal intelligence among different group s of high school students. The groups were formed on the basis of gender and place of habitat (urban or rural) of the students. The sample included 640 students taken from twenty schools situated in four districts of Himachal Pradesh. For measuring Non - Verbal Intelligence of the students included in the sample, Standard Progressive Matrices developed by Raven, Court, and Raven (1977) was used in the present study. The results of the study were not uniform in favour of truant or non - truant groups of stud ents and necessitate the replication of the study on a larger sample