A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOCIO-GENIC-NEED SATISFACTION OF STUDENTS PURSUING CONVENTIONAL AND JOB-ORIENTED COURSES

Scientific revolution has made this world a global village and one thing that is exploiting the human nature is flood of information. The youth is generally affected by this exploitation of information media. When we feed young mind with this type of information, they will obviously get indulged in such activities that make them restless. The cause for unrest can be the adverse socio-genic condition of the young aspirant which prevents him from achieving his aim. There are various psychological needs of an individual such as need of identification, recognition, acceptance etc. which are essential for personality development. These needs can be fulfilled in family and society. An humble attempt is made to study the various aspects of the problems of the 200 college going students particularly in reference with their socio-genic need satisfaction, the results revealed that dimensions of socio-genic need satisfaction vary.