Personality and Home Environment Among the Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

The impact of Home Environment on Personality was investigated on higher secondary school students sample consisting of 60 participants, 23 of whom were females and 37 were males. In this investigation an attempt has been made to study the relationship between the home environment  of higher secondary students and their personality. Descriptive survey research  method was employed. The study was conducted in the Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu state. Sixty students were selected based on stratification such as ender; locality and type of family and Medium of Instruction were taken into consideration. Investigator developed and validated Personality tool was used and the tool Home Environment Inventory standardized by Karuna Shankar Misra (1983) was used to collect data. The result of the present study clearly indicates the impact of  home environment on the personality of higher secondary school students.