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    Performance, Constraints and Problems of Elected Women Representatives of Gram Panchyat in Dharwad Taluk with Special Reference to Family
    (University of Agricultural Sciences ;Dharwad, 2002) Kukanur, Hulagevva; K. Saroja
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    Stressors among the students of high school
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Shilpa Taragar; V.S.Yadav
    A study on stressors among the students of high school was conducted during 2008- 09. Four high schools, each from urban and rural area, were selected randomly. Stress among the students was assessed using stress scale developed by the researcher. The scale was administered individually on randomly selected 20% students of VIII, IX and X standard separately. The samples consisted of 259 boys and 279 girls. The data were subjected to frequency, percentage, Z-test, ANOVA, chi-square, correlation of coefficient, t-test and index value analyses. The results revealed there was no significant relationship between selected demographic variables and stress, the male students experienced more stress compared to the female students. The urban students experienced more stress compared to the rural students. The students of X standard experienced more stress compared to the students of VIII and IX. The order of stressors revealed that TV watching was first order ; examination pressure, the problem of English language and worry about marks were the second order ; poor facility in school was the third order stressor among the girls. Similarly, TV watching was the first order; problem of English language, and poor facility in school were second order; examination pressure, financial constraints, worry about marks, dissatisfaction with the marks award by some teachers, hurried teaching, tension in catching a bus to reach the school in time and limited recreation time were third order stressors among the boys.
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    Health and nutritional status of women working in textile industries
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Samata.Patil; Sunanda Itagi
    A study on the health and nutritional status of 154 women textile workers was conducted in 4 government aided khadi gramodyogs of Hubli-Dharwad region during 2008- 09. Health status was assessed by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (P.G.I) Health Questionnaire N-2 developed by Wig and Verma (1978). Nutritional status was assessed by calculating BMI (Body Mass Index),WH ratio (Waist to Hip ratio) and WHTR ( Waist to Height Ratio) as given by Ashwen (1995).Occupational stress was assessed by occupational stress scale developed by House et al (1974). The results revealed that nearly half of the workers (43%) possessed normal BMI range, while according to WH ratio 90% of them showed normal range and 53% showed OK range with respect to WHTR . On the whole 62.33% of the women textile workers showed normal nutritional status. In case of health status 58% showed moderately affected health status along with high occupational stress level. The correlation coefficient between BMI, WH ratio and WHTR with health status was positive but not significant. Where as BMI and WHTR found negative but not significant relation to occupational stress, while WH ratio indicated positive relation to occupational stress. Health status had positive and highly significant relation to the occupational stress indicating increase in occupational stress increases chances of neurosis. Among all the personal characteristics age, educational level, distance of work place and work experience had significant influence on nutritional status of the women textile workers where as only educational level indicated significant influence on health status of the respondents. The work experience, educational level and distance of work place created occupational stress among workers up to 31%. Hence the study concluded that around 38% of workers indicated at risk range of nutritional status along with 58% of them showed high occupational stress affecting their health status (neurosis).
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    Influence of social Maturity and acedemic achievement on depression among pre-university II year science students
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Jyoti Athanimath; Ganga Yenagi
    The study was conducted to know the influence of social maturity and academic achievement on depression among the II-PUC science students. The sample consisted of 463 students drawn from tutorials in Dharwad city during 2008-09. Social maturity was measured using the social maturity scale by Pal(1986) and depression was measured using the depression scale of Karim and Tiwari(1986). Percentage of marks obtained in previous 2years’ final exam was considered as academic achievement and self structured personal information schedule was used to know the personal information. Socio-economic status of the family was assessed using the SES scale by AICRP-CD (2002). The results revealed that, the students were medium on social maturity and there was no significant gender difference among the students. Academic achievement of SSLC PUCI family size had negative and significant relation with social maturity. The students had excellent and good academic achievement in SSLC and PUCI respectively and girls had excellent academic achievement in both the years. Age and family size had negative and significant relationship with academic achievement whereas parents’ education, family income and SES were positively and significantly related to academic achievement in SSLC and PUCI. The students had moderate depression, as compared to girls, boys were more depressed. Age family size had positive and parents’ education family income academic achievement of PUCI had negative and significant relationship with depression of the students. Social maturity had negative nonsignificant relation with depression. Age family size mothers’ education and academic achievement in PUCI contribute to develop the depression to the extent of 10%. Thus high social maturity and academic achievement may help in reducing the level of depression.
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    Influence of parent relationship and self concept on academic achievement of PUC students
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Shubhangi Kamble; Pushpa.B.Khadi
    A study on influence of parental relationship and self concept on academic achievement of PUC students was carried out in Dharwad during 2008-09. Students from science, commerce and arts colleges studying in PUC-I and PUC-II year were selected by stratified random sampling. Total sample constituted 360 students out of which 180 were boys and 180 were girls. Rao’s (1989) parent-child relationship scale and Saraswat’s (1992) self concept scale were used to assess the parental relationship and self concept of the students. Average of previous two years annual examination was taken as an index of academic achievement. Results revealed that majority of the students perceived their parents as moderately protecting, demanding, loving, less indifferent, and rejecting and gave moderate symbolic punishment, symbolic reward, object reward and less object punishment. Boys and girls did not differ significantly in their perception of mother where as they differ significantly in their perception of father on symbolic punishment, symbolic reward, demanding and loving behavior. Science, commerce and arts students’ perception towards their parents differed significantly on protecting, symbolic punishment, symbolic reward and loving behavior.SES of the family was positively and significantly correlated with symbolic reward, object reward loving behavior and negatively and significantly correlated with symbolic punishment, neglecting and demanding behavior. Symbolic reward, object reward, loving, protecting and demanding behavior positively and significantly influenced academic achievement. Majority of the students had above average and high self concept. Boys and girls differed significantly on self concept and academic achievement. Students overall, educational, intellectual and temperamental self concept positively and significantly influenced academic achievement. Majority of the students had good and excellent academic achievement. Students who belonged to Science, Commerce and Arts disciplines and low, middle and high socio-economic status differed significantly on academic achievement. Fathers education, mothers education and SES positively and significantly influenced academic achievement.
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    Parental involment and exceptions in promoting social and personal skills of mentally challenged children
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Vineeta Kumari; Pushpa.B.Khadi
    A correlation design to know parental involvement and expectations in promoting social and personal skills of mentally challenged children was undertaken during the year 2008-09 in Hubli and Dharwad city of Karnataka state. Mentally challenged children in the age group of 5-16 years formed the population. The sample of 53 children were drawn from 3 special schools. BASIC-MR developed by Peshawaria and Venkatesan (1992) was administered to teachers to assess the social and personal skills of children. Parental involvement and expectations was assessed by using self-structured tool. A combination of Aoran et al. (1969) and Venkataramiah (1983) was used to assess socio-economic status of family. Results revealed that a higher percentage of children (39.62%) had acquired moderate level of skills followed by low (35.5%) and high levels (24.53%). Age of children, degree of disability, associated disability, age at identification of disability and degree of constraint had significant influence on the acquisition of skills among children. Majority of parents (71.70%) fell in low involvement in developing the skills among children and 28.30 per cent had moderate involvement while none of the parents were in high level. Child’s age, degree of disability, associated disability, age at admission to special schools and degree of constraint had significant influence on the parental involvement. More than 96 per cent had low expectations and very few (3.77%) had moderate expectations in acquisition of skills of children. Ordinal position, father’s occupation had significant influence on the parental expectations. Parental involvement brought a variation of 61per cent on social and personal skills of children while degree of constraint influenced to the extent of only 4 per cent
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    Emotional competence and stress on health status on primary school teachers and housewives
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2009) Pooja.Holeyannavar; Sunanda Itagi
    A study on the emotional competence and stress on health status of 105 primary school teachers and 50 housewives was conducted in Dharwad city during 2008-09. The married teachers more than 25 years of age with at least 5 years of teaching experience were randomly selected from 18 schools. The housewives belonging to the same age and income groups were selected as control group. Emotional competence was assessed using EC- Scale developed by Bharadwaj and Sharma (1995) and health status by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (P.G.I) Health Questionnaire N-2 developed by Wig and Verma (1978). Stress Inventory for Teachers (SIT) developed by Sheeja (1999) was used to assess the stress of teachers. General stress of teachers and housewives was assessed using Stress Index Questionnaire developed by Ivancevich and Matteson (1980). The results revealed that majority of the teachers and housewives indicated average to competent level of emotional competence (88-89.5%), high general stress levels (66-74.3%) and mildly affected health status (88.6-92.0%). Majority of the teachers showed average to high stressors and overall stress. There was highly significant difference between the teachers and housewives on health status, highlighting more perceived health problems among teachers. The selected demographic factors such as, age and work experience showed positive and highly significant relationship with emotional competence and health status, where as negative and highly significant with general stress of teachers. Income showed positive and significant relationship with emotional competence of housewives. Negative and significant relationship was observed between emotional competence with stress and health status of teachers and housewives. Hence, increase in the emotional competence reduced the stress levels and health problems (neurosis) significantly among primary school teachers and housewives.
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    Intelligence among attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children of primary school
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2008) Poornima; V.S.Yadav
    This was an expost-facto research study aimed to identify the intelligence among Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) children. The study was conducted on a sample of 52 children comprised of 26 ADHD and 26 the Best children of V standard from eight randomly selected Government primary kannada medium schools of Dharwad city in Karnataka State. Their age ranged from 10 to 12 years. ADHD children were identified and assessed using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder by the class teachers. Correspondingly to compare the intelligence of ADHD children with the Best children, same number of boys and girls were selected by the class teachers from the same schools and classes to which ADHD girls and boys belonged. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-III) was administered individually on ADHD and Best children to assess their intelligence. The results revealed that the prevalence of ADHD among the children was around 6 per cent and the boys and the girls ratio was 3:1. The percentage of prevalence of inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity and ADHD among the boys was higher compared to the girls. But the boys and the girls were similar in the intensity of expression of inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity and ADHD. The boys and the girls of ADHD and the Best children were similar in their IQ within their own group. But the Best children were significantly superior in their verbal, performance and composite IQ compared to the children of ADHD. Similarly, the ADHD children fell in very low percentiles on verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, freedom from distractibility and processing speed compared to the Best children. Only perceptual organization of intelligence was positively and significantly related to ADHD.
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    Emotional intelligence and stressors among working couples
    (UAS, Dharwad, 2008) Arati.S.Angadi; V.S.Yadav
    This was an ex-post-facto study to analyse emotional intelligence and stress among working couples conducted on a sample of 310 working couples of Dharwad city. The age of the respondent ranged between 24 and 69 years. The couples (respondents) were selected based on the criteria that both of them should be working for atleast 5 years, either of the couples should be a primary school teachers, who had been married for atleast 5 years and having atleast one child. Emotional intelligence questionnaire developed by Dulewicz and Higgs (2001) was used to measure emotional intelligence. Stress scale developed by Bhagwatwar (2000) was used to measure stress. The results revealed that there was no significant relationship between demographic characteristics and emotional intelligence and stress. On the basis of overall results of emotional intelligence it can be concluded that among the couples about 11, 7 and 82 per cent of them had developed lower, average and higher level of emotional intelligence, respectively. It was also found that there was a significant relationship between the couples on stressors. There was no significant relationship between emotional intelligence and stress. Even then emotional resilience and interpersonal sensitivity were negatively related to stress among the couples. Contrarily, intuitiveness and stress were positively related. But selfawareness, conscientiousness and overall emotional intelligence were not related to stress among the couples.