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Subject: Human Development and family studies × End date: 2018 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Stress, Parenting and Mental Health Among Intact and Single Parent Families
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Chanda, Krutika; Pujar, Lata
    The study on stress, parenting and mental health among intact and single parent families was conducted in University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, during 2016-18. The objectives of present study are the prevalence of alternative families in rural and urban areas of Dharwad and Bidar district; know the stress, parenting, parenting stress, mental health, child adjustment and child’s behavior among intact and single parent families; development of package on stress management and impact assessment of intervention program. The prevalence study was conducted on 1600 respondents from Bidar and Dharwad district found that majority of the families belonged to nuclear followed by single parent and joint families. Based on the prevalence results 240 mothers from intact families and 240 single mothers were selected from rural and urban areas of Bidar and Dharwad district. The qualitative research was done on 14 respondents. The major reason for singlehood in both the districts were widowhood (71.67% and 67.50%), separation (16.66% and 22.50%) and divorce (11.67% and 10 %). The problems faced by single mothers are emotional and financial problem. While the children and parents are the major support system for single mothers. Majority of single mothers had high stress, medium level of parenting stress, average in parenting and mental health status. There was significant association between the levels of stress and mental health among intact and single mothers of both districts. There was no significant difference found between the urban and rural children of intact and single parent families with child adjustment and behavioral problems. There was significant difference found between stress and anxiety level before and after the intervention program. Thus the intervention program was found to be effective in reducing the stress and anxiety levels of single mothers.
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    Parenting: Predictors of Infant Mental Health and Intervention
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Bhat, Pavitra; Khadi, Pushpa B.
    The effect of parenting on mental health of rural and urban infants of Dharwad taluk revealed a prevalence of an alarming percentage of infants ‘at risk for mental health’; with 22.5 per cent ‘at risk’ and 12 per cent who ‘needed monitoring’ in urban Dharwad, whereas in rural Dharwad, 23.95 per cent ‘needed monitoring’ and 21.87 per cent were ‘at risk’. Mental health of rural infants was significantly influenced by infant’s age, ordinal position, infant temperament, maternal parenting quality, positive co-parenting, maternal temperament and adult child ratio. The urban mothers were significantly high on parenting quality, marital satisfaction and positive co-parenting. Infant mental health and maternal parenting quality of rural mothers was significantly correlated with 77.8 per cent variation determined by these selected factors. The phenomenological approach and narrative analysis of in-depth interviews revealed the essence of parenting, mothering as unique experience, ‘fathering’ through the mother’s lens and efforts in shaping parenthood. The sample comprised of 80 each rural and urban mother-infant dyads with infants in the age group of 6-30 months; 20 mother-infant dyads drawn equally from the infant age cohorts of 6 – 12, 13-18, 19- 24 and 25 – 30 months. The infants were screened for mental health risk using standard measures and parenting was measured through the analysis of video recordings of the interactions (play and clean up activity) of mother-infant dyads in their natural settings for duration of 12 – 15 minutes; using observations and Keys to Interactive Parenting Scale (2006). In-depth analysis was on a sub sample of 97 mother-infant dyads focusing infant/child and adult temperament, parenting stress, maternal marital satisfaction, co-parenting using standard measures and nutritional status of infants through anthropometry. Intervention on ‘sensitive parenting’ comprising of ten sessions (two hours each) was provided to 36 mothers; which significantly increased the parenting knowledge, attitude and practices.
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    Marital, Parenting, Job and Life Satisfaction Through the Lens of Women: A Mixed Research Method
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-09) Leema Rajkumari; Khadi, Pushpa B.
    The marital, parenting and job satisfaction of women as well as its effects on life satisfaction was studied on a sample of 192 from Dharwad and 205 from Lamphelpat, Manipur during the year 2014-16 at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. A QUAN-qual mixed research method was employed. Marital, parenting, job and life satisfaction scales; socio-economic status and self-esteem scales; and big five inventory were used. Results revealed significant difference between marital, parenting and job satisfaction among rural women, wherein Dharwad women were significantly in higher proportion in high level of marital and job satisfaction than Lamphelpat women and Lamphelpat women were significantly higher on parenting satisfaction. But, urban women of both regions were similar on marital and parenting satisfaction. Higher percentage of rural women of Dharwad (86.7 %) and Lamphelpat (68 %) fell in high level of job satisfaction. Dharwad women had high level of life satisfaction than Lamphelpat women. Marital and parenting satisfaction was inter-related but not with life satisfaction. The predictors accounted for variances ranging from 16.3 to 38.6 per cent on marital, 25.2 to 54.4 per cent on parenting, 16.1 to 51.4 per cent on job and 17.5 to 43.9 per cent on life satisfaction. The phenomenological analysis revealed that promoters of marital and parenting satisfaction revolved around members of the family, their respect towards each other and quality of their intimacy. Choice in marital partner propelled individuals with commitments and efforts for successful marriage. When companionship desire was not met through partner there were wild thoughts and frustrations. Women of both regions were facing various challenges in their marital, parenting and job sphere so a resource material was provided as guidance for facing the challenges. It was distributed to 30 women who found that the information was helpful for managing stress, learning forgiveness and self-actualization.
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    Career Decision Making, Marriage Attitude and Identity Development of Emerging Adults: Correlates and Intervention
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-09) Murry, Renabeni T.; Pujar, Lata
    The study was conducted under the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, to know about career decision making, marriage attitude and identity development of emerging adults, its correlates and intervention. The sample consisted of 670 graduating emerging adults randomly selected from 11 colleges and 120 employed selected through snow ball sampling from Dharwad Taluk during the year 2015-17. Fourteen graduating and four employed emerging adults were interviewed and presented as case summaries. Career decision making difficulty questionnaire, dimensions of identity development scale, marital scale, mate preference questionnaires, socio-economic status (SES) scale, self-efficacy scale and big five inventory were used in the study. Results revealed that majority of graduating emerging adults had moderate level of career decision making difficulty (64 %), high intend to marry (56 %) and aspects of marriage (76 %). Graduating emerging adults from arts stream had more career decision making difficulties followed by commerce and science. Age, personality, SES, parent’s education and occupation influenced career decision making difficulties of graduating group with father’s education (5.5 %) as the greatest contributor while for employed group personality, self-efficacy and father’s education had significant influence with emotional stability (19.5 %) as greatest contributor. Personality, self-efficacy and SES significantly influenced marriage variables for both groups. Extroversion (1.2 %), emotional stability (2.1 %) and agreeableness (6.4 %) for graduating group while agreeableness (9.6 %) and gender (9.5 %) contributed greatest variances for marriage variables in employed group. For both groups, personality influenced four dimensions of identity. Self-efficacy, parent’s education and occupation had influence on graduating group. The greatest predictors for identity dimensions were openness to experience for both groups with conscientiousness and self-efficacy as additional predictors for employed group. Intervention on career guidance and planning was given to graduating emerging adults from arts stream which significantly impacted in reducing career decision making difficulty.
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    Inter-Relationship Between Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement of School Children: Intervention
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Enny, Wonchano E.; Pujar, Lata
    The study was conducted to know the inter-relationship between multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence and academic achievement of school children: intervention. The sample consisted of 393 school children (class 5 to 10) in the age range of 9 to 16 years drawn from different schools of urban and rural areas in Dharwad taluk during 2014-16. The tools used to assess the school children were McKenzie multiple intelligences inventory, Bar-On emotional Intelligence (youth version), socio-economic scale and Sud’s self-efficacy scale. Modified chi-square, t-test, ANOVA test, correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The results revealed that, majority of the school children had high level of existential (57.5 %), kinaesthetic (53.7 %) and visual intelligence (50.9 %) and medium level of musical (59.8 %) and naturalistic (55.5 %) intelligence. Majority had medium level of intrapersonal dimension (50.4 %), stress management dimension (59.8 %) and total emotional intelligence (47.8 %). There was significant difference between school children from different schools in their musical, logical, existential, verbal, intrapersonal and visual intelligence. Age, parent’s education, income and socio-economic status had significant influence on areas of multiple intelligences such as naturalistic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and dimension of emotional intelligence such as interpersonal and adaptability. Significant influence of multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence was observed on academic achievement of school children. Multiple intelligences alone accounted for 38.7 per cent of variance in academic achievement and together with emotional intelligence accounted for 39.3 per cent of variance in academic achievement of school children. After the intervention, significant difference was observed between pre-test, post-test 1 and 2 of science and english subject scores of experimental groups and not in control group.
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    Breast Feeding Practices: Effect on Infant Developmental Outcomes and Family Based Intervention
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Muktamath, Vinutha U.; Itagi, Sunanda
    Breast Feeding Practices: Effect on infant developmental outcomes and family based intervention study was conducted at University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during 2015-17 on 600 mother-infant dyads from rural area and 300 mother-infant dyads from urban area of Bijapur, Dharwad and Bagalkot districts of Karnataka. The objective of the study was to know the breastfeeding practices and to examine the effect of breastfeeding on infant development outcomes. The results revealed that more than fifty per cent mothers initiated breastfeeding within one hour and 25.11 per cent of mothers initiated breastfeeding after three days. Majority of mothers fed colostrum (73 %) and 57.78 per cent of mothers fed prelacteal feeds such as gutti, formula, gripe water, sugar water, glucose, honey, cow’s milk and jaggery. The knowledge regarding breastfeeding ranged from medium to low and majority of mothers had neutral attitude. A high percentage of rural mothers practiced early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding for first six months and longer duration of breastfeeding when compared with urban mothers. The rate of not feeding colostrum was higher in urban area (37.33 %) than rural area (21.83 %). Infants exclusively breastfed for first six months and breastfeeding for longer duration (>12 months) showed high cognitive, language, motor and socio-emotional development scores when compared with complementarily and never breastfed infants. The influence of home environment on infant developmental outcomes was high( 34 to 60 percent) compared to other factors. On the basis of the results of the study, an educational package on breastfeeding benefits was developed and the efficacy of the package was tested on 40 mothers. Post intervention revealed gain in mean knowledge score (39.38 to 61.53 %). The intervention program proved to be effective in enhancing knowledge index of the mothers on the importance of breastfeeding.