Psychosocial Problems Of Adolescents With Single Parent Family

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.