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The present study is aimed at finding out "Alienation of students in Public and Convent school students in relation to School Environment and Home Environment". Adolescence can be a time of both disorientation and discovery. Adolescence marks the transition between childhood and adulthood. By its very nature, it involves many physiological, psychological, social, and cognitive changes. These changes include the formation of a personal identity, the establishment of new peer networks, and the development of abstract thinking skills (Dacey & Kenny, 1997; Geldard & Geldard, 1999; Heaven, 1994). To manage these challenges, adolescents rely on their coping repertoire, which includes their problem solving competencies and skills. ae in the life span through which individuals pass in their Adolescence is a st g is esecially dynamic period because many of the roles preparation for adulthood. It p ique to this time of life. The capacity to achieve a high of adolescents learning are un level of self awareness arises during adolescence and self examination is the key to must be marshaled carefully. However, because attaining maturity. Energies cumulative, options are finite and every choice reduces later consequences are freedom. of adolescence also requires knowledge of A comprehensive understanding the personal factors, aspirations, attitudes, beliefs, or youth's consciousness dispositions that enable young people to sustain intimate and lasting social relltionship, accept vocational and economic responsibilities and form ideological Convictions. All young people have basic needs that are critical to survival and healthy development. They include a sense of safety and structure,belonging and membership., self worth and an ability to contribute; independence and control over one's life-, closeness and several good relationships and competency and mastery. At the same time to succeed as adults all youth must acquire positive attitudes and appropriate behavior and skills in five areas: health, personal/social knowledge, reasoning and creative, vocation and citizenship. (Politz, 1996).

While all adolescents experience potentially alienating contexts, there appears to be a threshold at which adolescents are no longer able to tolerate what is happening to them, and they exhibit behaviors commonly associated with alienation (Tripp, 1986).
The present study is aimed at finding out the "Alienation of students in Public and Convent school students in relation to School Environment and Home Environment". The variables like alienation, home environment and school environment need to be describing briefly
Alienation Alienation has been used in a variety of wa s by philosophers, theologian, y as described by Fromm (1963), sociologist and psychologists. The alienated person not experience himself as the centre of his world, as the creator of his ONVil acts does "'' dcts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or but 1,;„ even worship.

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