IJPP March 2014

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From times unknown students in India have been living at the house. (Coleman, 1970) in the undaunted expression of behaviour. ..... New York: Henry Holt.
Indian Journal of Positive Psychology 2014, 5(1), 33-36

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Self-concept and emotional competence among day students and boarders: A comparative study Smruti Deshpande and Shobhana Abhyankar Department of Psychology, Fergusson College, Pune, Maharashtra The present study was conducted to measure the Self Concept and the Emotional Competencies of adolescents who lived in boarding schools and those who lived at home. A sample of 243 adolescents, both male and female, with age ranging from 13 years to 16 years were given Saraswat's Self Concept Questionnaire and Sharma and Bharadwaj's Emotional Competencies test. The Independent-Samples t-test revealed significant differences on some dimensions of self concept and emotional competencies. Day students and boarders differed significantly on adequate depth of feeling (t=2.678, p