• Meena Rani
• Dr. Jyoti Khajuria

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship of modernization with respect to personality and values .Current study constituted a sample of 400 adolescent students (194 male & 206 female, selected from two divisions (Ambala, Hisar) of Haryana through simple random sampling technique. Tools viz. Dimensional Personality Inventory developed & standardized by Dr. Mahesh Bhargava (2015), Value scale developed & standardized by the Investigator herself and Comprehensive Modernization Inventory (CMI) revised designed by Dr. S.P. Ahluwalia and Ashok Kalia (2010) were used for the purpose of collection data. The data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment method and t-test. Findings revealed that overall modernization of adolescent students were significant and positively correlated with personality’s traits namely activity-passivity, suspicious- trusting and emotional instability- emotional stability. Overall modernization of adolescent students was not significant but having positive relationship with enthusiastic-non enthusiastic trait of personality. Results further showed that there existed negative relationship between assertive- submissive & modernization and depressive-non depressive & modernization of adolescent students. It was found that overall modernization of adolescent students was found significant and positively correlated with values sub-dimensions i.e. theoretical values, economic values, aesthetic values, social values, political values and religious values. In case of differential analysis, results indicated that male and female adolescent students did not differ with regard to personality trait activity-passivity trait and rest of five traits of personality i.e. enthusiastic-non enthusiastic, assertive- submissive, suspicious–trusting, depressive-non depressive and emotional instability-emotional stability were having significant difference with regard to male and female adolescent students. Results also showed that significant difference was found between male and female adolescent students on values sub dimensions namely theoretical values, economic values, aesthetic values, social values and political values but not significant difference was found with regard to religious values. In case of high level of modernization significant difference was found with regard to male and female but no significant difference was found between male and female adolescent students with regard to low level of modernization.

Personality, Values, Modernization, Adolescent Students

"PERSONALITY AND VALUES AS CORRELATES TO MODERNIZATION AMONG ADOLESCENT STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no.a220-a231, June-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106032.pdf

"PERSONALITY AND VALUES AS CORRELATES TO MODERNIZATION AMONG ADOLESCENT STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 6, page no. ppa220-a231, June-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2106032.pdf