Analysis of Social and Personal Problems among Youths

Abstract

Youth is the most valuable human resource of every country. A nation’s progress is depended on the progress of the youth. The young people constitute about forty per cent of the total population of India. A country is responsible to provide proper atmosphere for education, involvement, innovation and for improvement of the youth. Today’s society is not remaining as simple as earlier. In the modern society they are facing different problems. To understand their problems, it is important to understand the youth. Psychologists, sociologists and educationists have placed young people in today’s society from their different perspectives. This study strives to present an understanding of the personal and social problems of youth. The main objective of the study is to find out the personal and social problems that are faced by the youths of the present era on the basis of gender and the place of residence. For this purpose a total of 170 students were selected using stratified random sampling (85 boys and 85 girls) from different colleges of Kamrup district of Assam. A standardised questionnaire developed by Mithilesh Verma has been used for the present study. The study reveals that the boys and girls both face personal and social problems which affect their lives. This study can be beneficial for the policy makers, researchers, educationists and practitioners to address these issues which not only affect the youth but the whole society.