A study of gender sensitivity among secondary school students in relation to their family values school environment and sociocultural climate in Haryana

Abstract

This study aims to explore relationship between gender sensitivity, family values, school environment and socio-cultural climate of 756 secondary school students studying in the schools of district Sirsa and Jhajjar from Haryana. A sample of 756 secondary school students was selected for the quantitative phase and a sample of 12 secondary school students scoring high and low on gender sensitivity scores was selected for the qualitative phase. The differential findings revealed that there was significant difference in family values and school environment of secondary school students of districts Sirsa and Jhajjar. The Correlation findings revealed that gender sensitivity was significantly correlated with family values, school environment and socio-cultural climate in case of total sample, gender and locale. Further regression analysis indicated that family values came out to main predictor of gender sensitivity among secondary school students followed by socio-cultural climate and school environment. The qualitative findings indicated that different factors like personal, peer related, family related, school and socio-cultural related factors were extracted from the case studies conducted of the participants. newline