*Corresponding author: Rupali Chandola Department of Psychology, Shri Dronacharya P.G. College, Kalindi Marg Dankaur, G.B.Nagar, U.P, India ISSN: 0976-3031 Research Article INFLUENCE OF RESIDENTIAL SETTING ON GURJAR’S PERSONALITY Riya Bhati and Rupali Chandola* Department of Psychology, Shri Dronacharya P.G. College, Kalindi Marg Dankaur, G.B.Nagar, U.P, India DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2018.0902.1560 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Background: Personality is the reflection of uniqueness of a person as a whole. Each of us has unique Personality distinct from every other person. Personality of Gurjars belonging to rural and urban area develops according to the environment in which they grow. Therefore, The main purpose of current investigation was to examine the influence of residential setting on Personality of Gurjars. Method: The sample consisted of (n=30) participants of either sex (Group I, n=15) residing in urban and (Group II, n=15) were residing in rural area. The instrument for data collection which was tagged “Sentence Completion Test was administered to the respondents and used for the study. Results: Analysis of the data indicated that 80% urban Gurjars had high level of sociability, self confidence and ambitiousness in comparison to rural Gurjars 40.The difference was statistically significant (<.05). Conclusion: 60% urban male gurjars were highly social, confident, dominant, independent in nature, relaxed, un frustrated and ambitious in comparison to urban female 20%. INTRODUCTION The Gurjar is a great race of the world. Gurjars had been ruling the India since historical times; there some families were called Rajputs in medieval period. Rajput, Maratha, Jat and Ahir are heirs of the Khsatriyas. There is no community being called Khsatriya except us all. How that Khsatriyan race can be eliminated in which Ram and Krishna were born. The Gujjar, Gurjar are an ethnic group in India, Alternative spellings. The origin of the Gujjars is uncertain. 4 There are various references talking about their origin. Most of the Gurjars believe to have descended from Suryavanshi Kshatriyas and connect themselves with Shri Ram Chandra. 5 In Ramayana, it is described that a war was fought among demons and gods. Gurjars fought against demons under the leadership of King Dasharatha 8 The Indian urban and rural life is viewed as the two faces of the same coin. They are mutually interdependent and both have a greater impact of globalization. Rural community is an area which is under development and not civilized, based on geographical conditions this area is sparsely populated because many people leaves rural areas and settles in the urban areas for more facilities. This society has homogeneity in its profession that is their only source of earning is agriculture and this is transmitted from generation to generation. There is homogeneity in dress, language and customs. It means all these remain same because their culture is same they belong to the same area. These areas have got slow means of communication. Rural areas have very slow rate of change because of lack of education and modern technology. Areas have got simple culture transmitted from generation to generation. Rural areas have got informal social life that is they spent their life in a. simple way. Urban community is an area which is developed and civilized, based on geographical conditions. Urban society is thickly populated because many people comes from rural areas and settles down here for better facilities of life. In urban areas there is difference in dress, language and customs because there are a variety of people having different backgrounds. Have got fast means of communication that is they Gets aware of what is happening around the world rapidly. The areas have got fast rate of change because of education and modern technology. These areas have got complex culture because of mixing of other cultures in it. Human-altered environmental conditions affect many species at the global scale. An extreme form of anthropogenic alteration is the existence and rapid increase of urban areas, rural and urban conspecifics show differences in behaviour and personality. This introduction will first present how the five-factor theory, of the structure and expression of personality traits, describes the relationship between personality traits and culture. This theory makes several assumptions concerning the impact of cultures on people’s personality structure and on how they express that personality in a specific environment. Among personality models that describe personality traits, the five-factor model is certainly Available Online at http://www.recentscientific.com International Journal of Recent Scientific Research International Journal of Recent Scientific Research Vol. 9, Issue, 2(C), pp. 23907-23909, February, 2018 Copyright © Riya Bhati and Rupali Chandola, 2018, this is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: 10.24327/IJRSR CODEN: IJRSFP (USA) Article History: Received 17 th November, 2017 Received in revised form 21 st December, 2017 Accepted 05 th January, 2018 Published online 28 th February, 2018 Key Words: Personality, Gurjars, SCT, Residential setting.