Volume : 10, Issue : 6, JUN 2024

A STUDY OF OPTIMISTIC-PESSIMISTIC ATTITUDE AMONG ADOLESCENTS

DR. KAVITA MITTAL

Abstract

Attitudes play a pivotal role in shaping human behaviour. Attitudes can be described as the way we evaluate something or someone. An attitude refers to a set of emotions, beliefs, and behaviours towards a particular object, person, thing, or event. Such dispositions can be positive or negative. Our positive and negative attitudes can have a powerful influence on our behaviour in various situations. Optimists have a built-in positive attitude to be hopeful and consider the possibilities of good things happening in life while pessimists display a negative attitude towards life situations and describes a general expectation that bad things will happen. They tends to be associated with less favourable outcomes. This study compares optimistic-pessimistic attitude of adolescents across their gender and locale. A sample of 200 adolescents studying in 11th and 12th classes in schools of Sangrur district was taken for the study. Optimistic-Pessimistic Scale by Parashar (1998) was used to collect the data. The data was analyzed by employing t-test. The results of the study showed no significant gender differences in optimistic-pessimistic attitude of adolescents. Also there was no significant difference found in optimistic-pessimistic attitude of adolescents belonging to rural and urban areas.

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