COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELF CONCEPT IN HIV AFFECTED ADOLESCENTS: ON THE BASIS OF GENDER AND RESIDENCE

Population of HIV affected adolescents has been increased day by day. It is important to prevent their problems from childhood. This research focuses on self concept of HIV affected adolescents. Self concept is important psychological component to survive in society. The aim of current study was to examine the effect of residence and gender on self concept of HIV affected adolescents. This was 2 X 2 factorial designs. The sample of 120 having male and female is taken for this study and their age range was 13-19 years. For this study self concept questionnaire by Sarswat was used. Mean, S.D., Two Way ANOVA were used for the analysis of collected data. Researcher concludes that residence factor significantly influence on self concept except educational self concept. Those HIV affected adolescents are lived in urban area; they are high on overall self concept than rural area adolescents.