Optimistic-Pessimistic Tendency among Senior Secondary School Students

Descriptive research and survey method has been used. All the senior secondary school studying in different senior secondary schools in Ludhiana district of Punjab constitutes the population for the present study. The investigator has selected 200 students (100 each from govt. and private schools) from 20 schools by using simple random-sampling technique. To collect data, optimistic-pessimistic scale by D.S. Parasar was used and for result analysis, t-test has also applied. The findings of the study revealed that there exists no significance difference in optimistic-pessimistic tendency among senior secondary school male and female students studying in government and private schools.