Assessing personal effectiveness among adolescents in high school: at jaipur city; Rajasthan (India)

Adolescence is a period of life that is time of transition between childhood to adulthood and maturity. Personal effectiveness is a branch of the self-help movement dealing with success, goals, and related concepts. The present study is done to find out the Personal effectiveness in high school adolescents. The sample for the investigation consisted of 120 adolescents studying in 9th and 10th class, inclusive both 60 boys and 60 girls. The sample was taken from Lai C.M. Public school of Jaipur city. Standardized tool was used to measure the variable Personal effectiveness scale (students) PE by Dr. Udai Pareek (1997). For analysis of data, mean, standard deviation, and t-test were computed. The results of the study revealed that, variable ‘personal effectiveness’ shows that mostly adolescents were secretive by nature. They do not like to share the ideas. Girls were more secretive than boys. On the other hand boys were high on self-disclosure, open to feedback and perceptiveness.