Influence of socio-economic status on quality of life among rural adolescent girls Shilpa R1, Research scholar, Kodandarama2, Dr., Professor 1Department of Social work, Bangalore University 1Department of Social Work, Bangalore University ABSTRACT: The present study focuses on how the socio-economic status of the adolescent girls in rural areas affects their quality of life with reference to physical health, psychological, social relationships, environmentaland total quality of life. A total of 414 adolescent girls were randomly selected. They were administered SES scale developed by Meenakshi (2004) and Quality of lifemanual and scale was developed by Alison Harper on behalf of the WHOQOL group during 1996, which measured physical health, psychological, social relationships, environmental and total quality of lifeof an individual. One way ANOVA was employed to find out the significance of mean differences between adolescent girls with varied SES background on physical health, psychological, social relationships, environmental and total quality of life. Results revealed that SES had significant influence over all the domains of quality of life in adolescent girls, where adolescent girls in poor SES had least depression scores and those who with below average SES had highest depression scores and others in between. SES did not have significant influence over anxiety of adolescent girls belonging to rural areas. In the case of stress, though not statistically significant, comparatively those adolescent girls in poor SES had least stress compared to the adolescent girls in rest of the SES groups Top Keywords: Adolescent, Rural girls, Socio-economic status, Quality of life. Top |