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    Emotional Competence and Marital Satisfaction Among Hindu and Muslim School Teachers
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Hungund, Nagma; Yadav, V.S.
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    Interrelation of Emotional Intelligence, Personality and Life Satisfaction Among Elderly
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Panda, Pragnya Priyadarshini; Yadav, V.S.
    The study on “ Interrelation of emotional intelligence, personality and life satisfaction among elderly” was conducted on 140 elderly, 70 each from rural and urban aged 60 and above years selected randomly from Dharwad and Cuttack districts during 2016-17. Emotional intelligence questionnaire (Dulewicz and Higgs, 2001), Big five factors personality inventory (John et al., 1991), Life satisfaction tool (Ram Murthy,1978) and Socioeconomic status scale (Aggarwal et al., 2005) were administered individually and in group to collect the data. The data were subjected to percentages, t-test, chi -square and correlation analyses. The results revealed that male and female elderly were similar in emotional intelligence, big five factors of personality and in life satisfaction. Majority of elderly were average or high in emotional intelligence, big five factors of personality and life satisfaction. Elderly from Dharwad and Cuttack were differed in emotional intelligence, big five factors of personality and in life satisfaction. Elderly from rural area of Dharwad were distinctively higher intuitiveness, influence and emotional resilience but elderly from urban of Cuttack better on conscientiousness and emotional intelligence. Correspondingly, elderly from rural area of Cuttack were distinctively higher in conscientiousness, interpersonal sensitivity, motivation and emotional intelligence and also elderly from urban area of Cuttack were better in conscientiousness, intuitiveness, influence, interpersonal sensitivity, motivation, emotional resilience and self-awareness. Subsequently, rural elderly from Dharwad were better in extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness and emotional stability but it is reversed in case of Cuttack elderly. Urban elderly of Dharwad and Cuttack were better in life satisfaction. Socio-economic status was related to emotional intelligence, big five factors of personality and life satisfaction. Emotional intelligence, big five factors of personality and life satisfaction were interrelated.
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    Marriage Readiness During Late Adolescence in Rural and Urban Areas
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Netravati Dali F.; Yenagi, Ganga V.
    Marriage readiness during late adolescence in rural and urban areas was assessed in Dharwad and Mudhol taluks of Karnataka state during 2016-2017 on a sample of 360 college students from urban and rural areas during late adolescence (18 to 21 years). A sample of 180 students was taken from UAS Dharwad - B.Sc. (Agriculture), B.Sc. (Agriculture Marketing) and B.Sc. (Home Science) and 180 students of B.Sc., B.A. and B.Com. were selected from Mudhol colleges. General information was collected from late adolescence on factors such as age, gender, ordinal position, religion, caste, type of family, size of the family, education, marital status of siblings, sources of information regarding marriage, education and occupation of parents’ and socio-economic status. Marriage readiness was assessed using personal readiness for marriage scale by Holman. Socio-economic status scale of Aggarwal was used. More than fifty per cent of B.Sc. (Agriculture Marketing) and 50 per cent of B.Com. adolescents exhibited moderate level of marriage readiness. There was a significant difference between adolescents of different degree programmes on marriage readiness. Fifty one per cent of rural and 45 per cent of urban adolescents possessed moderate level of marriage readiness. There was a significant difference in rural and urban areas on marriage readiness. Adolescents of 20-21 year age group had higher level of marriage readiness than 18-19 years. Females had higher level of marriage readiness as compared to males. First borns exhibited higher level of marriage readiness than second and later borns. Information given by relatives had significantly contributed towards marriage readiness. Parents’ education and occupation had significant association with marriage readiness. Socio- economic status had significant association with marriage readiness. Adolescents belonging to upper middle class possessed higher level of marriage readiness than lower middle class and high class. Hence, intervention is important to enhance marriage readiness of adolescents.
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    Language Development of Rural and Urban Toddlers: Influence of Parenting, Home Environment and Demographic Factors
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-06) Vinuta; Khadi, Pushpa B.
    Language development of rural and urban toddlers and the influence of parenting, home environment and demographic factors were studied on a sample of 240 mother-infant dyads (9 to 30 months) drawn from rural area of Gadag, Bijapur and Bagalkot districts of northern Karnataka and urban from Dharwad city during 2015-2016. Differential design and correlation design was employed. The language sub- scale of Bayley’s scale of infant and toddler development was administered to infants. Parenting, home environment, socio-economic status was assessed by standard measures. There was highly significant difference between rural and urban toddlers on language development indices with a difference of 4 – 6 scores. Rural infants were in high proportion in delayed level (75.80 %) than urban (34.20 %) while on average (54.20 %) and advanced level (11.70 %) urban toddlers were in higher proportions than rural (21.70 %, 2.50 %). Toddlers’ age, gender, ordinal position and nutritional status had significant influence on language development among both rural and urban area. Toddlers of 25-30 months had optimum development while it was delayed among 9-12 months old. Female toddlers and later born were better across all age groups with a difference of 15 to 18 indices. Type of family, father’s and mother’s education was significantly associated with language development of both urban and rural toddlers. Toddlers of joint families were significantly better. A higher percentage of parents among urban (80.00 %) had positive parenting than rural parents (20.00 %). Similarly, home environment of urban toddlers was significantly better than rural. Both parenting and home environment significantly influenced the language development. There is a need to provide an intervention for parents to educate them regarding stimulation for toddlers language development, positive parenting as well as conducive home environment to promote early child language development.
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    Cognitive Abilities and Social Skills of Children From “Nali-Kali” (Joyful-Learning) and Conventional Education Program
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-07) Hirelingannavar, Soumya; Patil, Manjula
    A study on “Cognitive abilities and social skills of children from “Nali-Kali” (joyful-learning) and conventional education program” was carried out in Dharwad taluk, Karnataka during 2016-17. The samples were selected from 8 schools (4 Nali-Kali and 4 conventional). The population comprised of children studying in 4th grade who attended Nali-Kali up to 3rd level and who are in 4th grade of conventional school of rural and urban areas of Dharwad taluk. Wechsler’s Intelligence Scale for Children-III (WISC) was used to assess the cognitive abilities of the children and Social Skill Improvement System (SSiS) - Teacher form was used to assess social skills of the children. The socio-economic status was assessed through socio-economic status scale. The results showed that, majority of the children in Nali-Kali schools fell under below average level of intelligence. Whereas, children in conventional schools fell under average level of intelligence. Most of the children from conventional schools fell under average level of social skills. Whereas, children from Nali-Kali school fell under below average category of social skills. In both cognitive abilities tests and social skills, conventional school children scored better than Nali-Kali school children. Girls scored higher in verbal tests and boys performed higher in performance tests. With respect to cognitive processes, girls scored higher in verbal comprehension and boys scored higher in perceptual organization and also in social skills, girls scored higher in both Nali-Kali and conventional schools. Results with other variables revealed that, first borns scored higher than later borns in cognitive abilities tests, cognitive processes and social skills and education of the mother showed significant difference in cognitive abilities tests, cognitive processes and social skills of the children. Children belong to higher socio-economic group scored significantly higher in cognitive abilities tests, cognitive processes and social skills than children belong to lower socio-economic group.
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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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    Mother’s Parenting Style and Socio-Emotional Behaviour of Primary School Children
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2017-08) Anikivi, Gayatri A.; Yenagi, Ganga
    Mothers’ parenting styles and socio-emotional behaviour of primary school children in rural and urban areas of Bailhongal and Dharwad taluks of Karnataka state, was assessed during 2016-17 at the College of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. The total sample comprised of 240 primary school children, of which 160 were rural and 80 were urban. The Parenting Rating Scale, Child Behaviour Checklist (Teacher Report form) and the Socio- Economic Status Scale was used. The collected data was analysed by using following statistical tests, frequency and percentage, t-test, Chi square, one way ANOVA. Majority of the rural and urban mothers had permissive parenting style (85.83%), followed by authoritarian (71.66%) and authoritative parenting style (50.40%). Mothers exhibited more authoritative parenting style towards their first borns whereas authoritarian parenting to last borns in rural locale. High authoritative parenting was observed among graduate mothers in both rural and urban localities. Mothers from poor and lower middle SES family, had higher authoritarian parenting in rural locale. Majority of the primary school children had normal behavioural problems followed by clinical (16.25%) and borderline (13.75%). Among urban groups, girls were found with significantly more total behavioural problems (17.40%) as compared to boys (8.80%). Lower the education level among rural mothers higher the internalizing and externalizing problems among rural children. There was significant difference observed between mothers’ occupation on internalizing and externalizing problems in rural children. Children of working mothers exhibited more total behavioural problems as compared to children of house wives. Children from poor and lower middle SES exhibited more externalizing and total behaviour problems in rural locality. Higher the mothers’ authoritative parenting, lower the behaviour problems among rural and urban school children. Higher the mothers’ authoritarian parenting, higher will be the externalizing and total behaviour problems among urban school children.
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    Emotional Maturity of Academically Backward School Children
    (University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, 2016-06) Vijaya S.; Hunshal, Saraswati C.
    A study on “Emotional maturity of academically backward school children” was carried out under a Department of Human Development and Family Studies in the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad in Dharwad district, Karnataka state during 2015-16. The sample for the study comprised 240 students from higher primary schools in the age of 10.1 -14 years from rural schools in Narendra, Yettinagudda, Mummigatti and Kotur and urban schools of Dharwad city were selected. The socio-economic status was assessed, problem checklist for academically backward children was assessed, emotional maturity scale was employed. Standard progressive matrices and NIMHANS index Level-II were used to collect the required data for the study. The results revealed that prevalence of academically backward children was 30.12 per cent and it was high in rural area 30.60 per cent compared to urban area 29.08 per cent. Further, main causes for academic backwardness were related to personal problem followed by school related and familial problem. Hence, significant difference in emotional maturity between academically superior and academically backward children. Similarly, significant difference was also observed in emotional maturity between rural and urban children. Further, there was no influence of emotional maturity on age and gender. While, socio-economic status of the family had significant influence on emotional maturity. Hence, the finding clearly indicates that emotional maturity of academically superior and academically backward children had drastic change in academic achievement. Academically superior children (54.16 %) and urban children (56.66 %) were better in emotional maturity compared to academically backward children (15.83 %) and rural children (46.66 %).