An analytical study among collegiate students with relation to youth problems in Goalpara district of Assam

Youth are the backbone of every nation. They are the human resources of our country and they are leaders for tomorrow. They face many problems in their life from different aspects related to family, college, social, and personal as a whole. It is the duty of the nation to protect themselves from different barriers of the society. The present research study is undertaken to study analytically the four problems as family, college, social, and personal in aspect of youth problems among collegiate students in Goalpara district of Assam. Two hundred collegiate students (100 boys and 100 girls) from urban and rural colleges are taken as sample of the present study. Youth Problem Inventory (YPI) developed by Dr. M. Verma has been used to collect data from collegiate students. The collected data are statistically analyzed by using mean, Standard Deviation and one way ANOVA. The findings of the study reveal that girls have significantly high family problems, college problems and personal problems than boys. There is no significant difference between boys and girls with relation to social problems in aspect of youth problems among collegiate students in Goalpara district of Assam. Girls have significantly high youth problems than boys.