Abstract:
Living in single parent has a disadvantage in adolescent’s psychosocial
development. The psychosocial i.e. both psychological (depression, suicide attempt and
high school dropouts) and social (delinquency and drug and alcohol abuse) problems of
adolescents was studied to assess the psychosocial problems of adolescents who are living
with single parent families in Jiren High school.
A case study of four adolescents from Jiren high school taken using random lottery
method from those who are identified as living with single parent from the questionnaire
they filled was employed. A descriptive analysis method, tables & charts, graphs &
figures were in the analysis most adolescents who are living with single parent family
have all psychological problems such as depression high school dropouts and suicide
attempt. This means that adolescents from single homes felt depressed, dropout from
school and attempt suicide. However, these adolescents do not have social problems like
delinquency and drug and alcohol abuse. Thus they are not criminally delinquents are
not drug and alcohol abuses. The family and psychologists should work to solve the
problems ( psychological problems) of these adolescents.
