The objectives of study were: (1) To construct a scale to assess social alienation. (2) To study the relationship of social alienation with some demographic factors, like, (a) Sex, (b) Age, (c) Religion, (d) Caste, and (e) Streams of study. (3) To study the association of social alienation with some social – psychological factors including (a) Socio – economic status, (b) Intelligence, (c) Academic achievement, (d) Family climate, (e) Social climate, and  (f) Self – concept. (4) To assess the relative contribution of social – psychological factors (Socio – economic status, Intelligence, Academic achievement, Family climate, School climate and Self – concept) to the variance of the social alienation.

The hypotheses of study were: (1) There is no difference in the level of social alienation of boys and girls. (2) There is no difference in the level of social alienation among separately age group. (3) There is no difference in the level of social alienation between Hind and non – Hindu adolescents. (4) There is no difference in the level of social alienation in separately between high and middle caste; high and low caste; middle and low caste adolescents. (5) There is no difference in the level of social alienation in separately between literary group and science group; science group and commerce group; literary group and commerce group adolescents. (6) There is no association between separately dimensions of social alienation with SES among adolescents. (7) There is no association between separately dimensions of social alienation with level of intelligence among adolescents. (8) There is no association between separately dimensions of social alienation with level of academic achievement among adolescents. (9) There is no association between separately dimensions of social alienation with family climate among adolescents. (10) There is no association between separately dimensions of social alienation with school climate among adolescents. (11) There is no association between separate dimensions of social alienation with self - concept among adolescents.

The sample comprised of 510 Students of Class XI from 6 different Inter Colleges of Lucknow. It was selected through Two Stage Stratified Random Sampling Technique.

Socio – Economic Status Scale by Kuppuswamy (1986), Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test (1983), Swatava Bodh Parikshan by Sherry & et al. (1979) were used for collecting data. Social Alienation Test (Split-half reliability coefficient = 0.62), Family Climate Questionnaire and School Climate Questionnaire developed by Researcher were used for data collection.

The findings of study were: (1) Sex and religion play no role in social alienation. (2) Age plays an important role in alienation. Higher the age, higher is the social alienation. (3) Scheduled and backward caste Hindus are highly alienated as compared to other castes. (4) Literary stream respondents are most alienated and science stream adolescents are least alienated. (5) Higher the level of socio – economic, lower is the level of alienation. (6) Intelligence gives a negative correlation with social alienation. (7) Academic achievement is associated with social alienation. (8) Family climate is inversely associated with social alienation. (9) School climate is negatively correlated with social alienation.