Association between Socio-Personal Variables and Awareness of School Going Girls Regarding Self-defense

Nurturing a sense of awareness in adolescents, providing knowledge of how to meet life’s challenges and encouraging and reinforcing healthy choices help them develop the social competence and self-confidence. This study was conducted with the aim to assess the association between socio-personal variables and awareness regarding self-defense of school going girls of Udaipur, Rajasthan. The sample was selected purposively from four schools within the municipal limits of Udaipur city, having the similar infrastructural facilities. Standardized self-structured questionnaire was used to find out the awareness regarding self-defense of school going girls. The findings of the study found that the type of locality, type of family, working hours of parents, type and size of friend group had no significant associations with awareness regarding self-defense among school going girls. But there was significant association found between levels of awareness regarding self-defense among school going girls by income of family.