Impulsiveness of Different Sociometric Groups among Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating “Impulsiveness of different sociometric groups among secondary school students”. Initially the sample consisted of 2000 secondary school students (girls) of Aligarh district. After that through simple random sampling, four sociometric categories i.e., Populars(100), Neglectees(100), isolates(100) and rejectees(100) were drawn and taken as the final research subject. The test developed by Sharma (1970) was used for drawing sociometric categories. To study Impulsiveness among these sociometric categories, the scale developed by Rai & Sharma(1988) was used . The finding of the research indicated that no Significant difference was found among four Sociometric groups ( i.e., populars, neglectees, isolates, & rejectees)” and between the two sociometric groups i.e., populars & neglectees, populars & isolates, populars & rejectees, neglectees & isolates, neglectees & rejectees, isolates & rejectees on the variable of impulsiveness.