Author(s): Gargi Bhattacharjee and Susmita Neogi

Abstract:
The paper deals with the investigation on adolescent boys and girls to find out any gender difference of the level of achievement of the developmental task of adolescent periods. Accordingly a group of 100 (Male = 50 and Female = 50) secondary board students were selected following purposive sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was developed for the study which was administered on sample. The findings indicated that there was significant gender difference between adolescent boys and girls in the overall achievement of the development task only at p<.10 level. But the t-test done for each developmental task separately showed that except task 5 that is preparing family and marriage life there was no significant gender difference both at.05 and.01 level.