Correlates of Alienation in Adolescents
Research conducted in the field of adolescent behaviour depicts that, in the recent years a great deal of interest has been shown regarding the theme of alienation. Social commentators concern with growing frequency that, "Alienation" is one of the greatest problems confronting us today (Mohan, et al. 1999) Alienation is an experience which has become more and more a fact of life in these days of modernization. Probably adolescents feel this much more than the aged or children. They experience powerlessness, normlessness, rootlessness and drift in values. Though very old, the concept of alienation has become the hallmark of modern age. It is increasingly being recognized as a symptom of man's contemporary crisis a human problem which is reflected in the vast literature in the lonely crowd the dehumanization of modern man. It is revealed in large number of adolescents today who have lost faith in and are actively rebelling against many accepted standards of society and among others who dropout from the society (Sharma, 2002)