Group Cohesion and Integration: A Comparative Study of Mainstream and Faith-based Youth Groups in Lahore

The major findings of the study show that religious youth groups were better in group cohesion as compared to mainstream social youth groups. Religious youth groups were also having better working structure. But as a whole that most of the studied groups did not have networking with other youth groups and were working independently within limited resources. It was found that majority of the members of studied youth groups were not fully aware of the aims of their youth groups. Here again members of religious youth groups were better in clarity of purpose. Generally it was found that lack of awareness among the members of youth groups and not having proper physical structures were the major reasons for lesser group cohesion and integration with other youth groups, which also resulted in lesser degree of productivity.