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    Impact of home and school environment on the educational aspiration of adolescents.
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Tiwari, Sneha; Chandrakala Singh
    Aspirations begin to be shaped ear ly in c hildís life, but are modif ied by exper ience and the enviro nme nt. Aspiration means a stro ng desire to achieve something high or gre at. Academic achievement has become an index of a childís future. Socially , the child is the product of environme nt. two enviro nme nts home and sc hool share an inf lue ntial space in individual's life and there exists a unique combination between the two. This pape r examine s the inf lue nce of academic achievement, home and sc hool environme nt o n the educatio nal aspiratio n of adolescents. The study was conducted in Hisar city of Hary ana state where two governme nt and two private (high fee structured) schools were selected. The sample compr ised of 160 adolescents (80 girls and 80 boys) taken equally f rom each school. Adolescents were assessed for their educational aspiratio n by educational aspiratio n scale (form P). The results revealed that major ity of pr ivate sc hool adolescents had above average educational aspiratio n and high academic achievement while government school adolescents had below average aspiratio n with low academic achievement. Signif icant dif ferences were observed in educational aspiratio n, home and sc hool enviro nme nt ac ross ty pe of school and ge nde r . Educational aspiratio n was signif icantly associated with academic ac hievement, socio personal variables, home and school enviro nme nt of adolescents.
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    Parenting style as determinant of children’s behaviour
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Saini, Varsha; Dhanda, Bimla
    The study was conducted in rural and urban areas of district Hisar of state Haryana. The objective of the study was to assess the adaptive behaviour skills of children in relation to their parenting styles. A sample comprised of 100 children and 200 their parents. The results revealed that authoritative parents were positively significantly correlated with adaptive behaviour of children, whereas authoritarian and permissive parents were negatively correlated with adaptive behaviour of children. Comparison over location indicated that mean performance of urban children regarding the adaptive behaviour skills was significantly better than their rural counterparts. Further study revealed that aspects of home environment such as encourage of maturity, emotional climate, learning materials and opportunities, enrichment, family companionship and physical environment were significantly associated with adaptive behaviour. The total home environment and socio-personal variable were also significantly associated with adaptive behaviour of children as well as parenting styles.
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    Temperament and developmental domains of children
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Kashyap, Isha; Sangwan, Sheela
    The present investigation was conducted in Hisar city of Haryana state. Fifty boys and fifty girls in the age group of 8-10 years were selected from Government High School of Mayar village. In the same way, hundred children, fifty boys and fifty girls were selected from the Campus school, CCS HAU, of Hisar city. Results revealed that there were significant differences in urban and rural children’s temperament but there were no gender differences in temperamental dimensions. Urban males were more emotional and distractible than females but rural female were more rhythimic than males. On the basis of developments of children, urban children were more social and emotional than rural children. Males were more physically active than females, but females were high in intellectual development performance than males. Results also revealed that physical and social and emotional developments of children were positively and significantly correlated with all the temperamental dimensions. Sociability, emotionality and energy dimensions of temperament were significantly associated with area, caste, parental education and income of the family. There was significant association of social and emotional development of children with area, caste, ordinal position, parental education and occupation and income of the family.