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@article{197239,
        author = {Dr.A.Magalingam and Mahalakshmi R},
        title = {A STUDY ON CULTURAL DETERMINATION AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {5304-5308},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197239},
        abstract = {Cultural determinants include ethnicity, race, and country of origin, language, nonverbal communication, acculturation, gender, age, sexual orientation, values, behavior norms, rules, manners, social grouping and relationships, religious and spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic class and education. Cultural determinants represent features by which basic differentiation of cultures is possible. Thus, various internal and external factors are involved in influencing towards of secondary school students in to cultural determination and Family Environment of human. Nowadays, students are mostly affected by societal changes. And for this study, secondary school students are taken into consideration for the study. The samples were collected using Random sampling technique. The present investigation consists of 800 secondary school students in Cuddalore district of Tamandu state. Out of the 800 samples, in which 310 were male secondary school students and 490 were female secondary school students. Cultural Determination Scale (CDS) developed and validated by Chauhan and Sharma (1977). Statistical Analysis: Mean, SD (Analysis of Variance) and Correlation were calculated. Conclusions: There is significance difference in the cultural determination of secondary school students based on father’s education, mother’s education, parent’s occupation and type of family and further it is found that there is no significance difference in the cultural determination of secondary school students based on gender and type of school.},
        keywords = {Cultural determination, Family Environment secondary school students},
        month = {April},
        }