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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established on October 1, 1986.
The University has 5 Colleges, 27 Research Stations, 6 Agriculture Extension Education Centers, 6 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and ATIC. The University has its jurisdiction over 7 districts namely Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, and Uttar Kannada in northern Karnataka. Greater diversity exists in soil types, climate, topography cropping and farming situations. The jurisdiction includes dry-farming to heavy rainfall and irrigated area. Important crops of the region include sorghum, cotton, rice, pulses, chilli, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, wheat, safflower etc. The region is also known for many horticultural crops.
Considerable progress has been registered in the field of education, research and extension from this University.
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ThesisItem Open Access Socio-Emotional Development and Adaptive Behavior of Young Children and it’s Correlates(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-10) Ekka, Anish Fatima; Khadi, Pushpa B.The socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour of 240 young children (24-42 months) of Dharwad taluk of northern Karnataka and Bilaspur of Chhattisgarh was studied through a differential research design during 2017-2018 revealed that higher percentage of children from both rural and urban area were below average in socio-emotional development, while in adaptive behaviour maximum percentage of rural Bilaspur children belonged to average level and urban children were above average. But majority of Dharwad children were in average level. There is a need to provide educational intervention for parents to provide early stimulation for children. Age, gender, pre-school attendance and socio-economic status significantly influenced both socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour. Female children from high socio-economic status with preschool attendance had better socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour. Ordinal position, nutritional status and mother’s age were significantly associated with socio-emotional development where in first born with good nutritional status scored better than later borns. Parenting significantly influenced both socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour, indicating that children experiencing high parenting quality exhibited advancement in socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour. So, a need to educate parents on “positive parenting”. There was no significant influence of number of sibling’s, parent’s educational level, father’s age, occupation and family type on both socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour. Socio-emotional and adaptive behaviour sub scale of Bayley scale of infant and toddler development was administered to children and parents were interviewed. Parenting was assessed by Smith et al.tool (2012). Chi square and correlation was used to know the association /relation between selected factors and socio-emotional development and adaptive behaviour of children.ThesisItem Open Access Menopausal Changes in Urban and Rural Women: Prevalence, Correlates and Intervention(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-08) Patil, Suma G.; Hunshal, Saraswati C.The present study was conducted during the year 2014-2017 with the objective to study prevalence of menopausal symptoms, factors influencing menopausal changes and to assess the quality of life among urban and rural women in three districts of Northern Karnataka. Multistage sampling technique was used to draw sample from urban and rural areas of Dharwad, Vijayapura and Uttarkannada districts. Self structured questionnaire, a green’s climacterics, physical activity checklist, WHOQOL–BRIEF, nutritional status, socio-economic status, depression, stress, knowledge level was assessed using standard tools. The results indicated that the mean age of attainment of menopause women in Northern Karnataka was 45.74 years. Whereas, the mean age of attainment of menopause among urban women was 45.37 years and 46.11 years in rural women. Most prevalent physical and psychological symptoms among urban and rural women were feeling tense or nervous, difficulty to concentrate, loss of feeling in hand. In both urban and rural area majority of premenopausal women had mild symptoms while peri and post menopausal women had moderate to severe symptoms. BMI and stress had positive and significant influence on menopausal symptoms while physical activity had negative and significant influence on menopausal symptoms. Both urban and rural women had low physical, psychological and social quality of life. Where as in case of overall and environmental quality of life majority of urban women had medium to high quality of life and rural women exhibited low quality of life. Among factors studied menopausal symptoms and depression had negative significant influence on quality of life. The efficacy of educational package on menopause transition and its management through diet and lifestyle guidance was tested on 20 menopausal women. The results indicated significant increase in knowledge score after intervention (t-value = 12.75) thus intervention programme was found to be effective in improving knowledge level of menopausal women.ThesisItem Open Access Psychological Well-Being of Urban and Rural Adults: an Exploration of Perceived Stress and Coping Strategies(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-08) Devaramane, Pratibha H; Yenagi, Ganga V.The present investigation was undertaken in the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during 2017-18. A random sample of 360 adults (180 rural and 180 urban) from Dharwad and Gadag districts were selected. A sample of 180 adults comprised of 60 emerging, 60 young and 60 middle adults. Psychological Well-being Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations and Socio-Economic Scale were used. The data were subjected to ‘t’ test, One way ANOVA, correlation and regression. The results revealed that about half of the urban adults had medium level of psychological well-being while half of rural adults had higher level of psychological well-being. Half of the urban adults employed average level of task-oriented coping, emotion-oriented coping and avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Majority of rural adults employed above average emotion-oriented task-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Majority of the urban and rural adults had medium level of perceived stress. Among urban adults, emerging adults had significantly better autonomy than young and middle adults. In rural area, young adults had significantly better overall psychological well-being than emerging and middle adults. There was significant difference between urban adult groups on perceived stress. Young adults had lower level of perceived stress than emerging and middle adults. In urban area, significant gender difference was found for task-oriented coping strategies while in rural area significant gender difference was found for task-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Males scored higher than females on task-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping strategies in both urban and rural areas. Age, education, income, size of family, socio-economic status were significantly related to psychological well-being and coping strategies of adults while age and occupation were significantly related to perceived stress. Perceived stress, task-oriented coping and emotion-oriented coping strategies were significantly related to psychological well-being.ThesisItem Open Access Marital Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Among Primary School Teachers in Rural and Urban Areas of Roorkee Taluk (Uttarakhand) and Dharwad Taluk (Karnataka)(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Pooja; Yenagi, Ganga V.The study was conducted to know the levels of marital satisfaction and job satisfaction and their influencing factors among primary school teachers in rural and urban areas of Roorkee taluk (Uttarakhand) and Dharwad taluk (Karnataka) in College of Community Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad in 2017-18. The socio-economic status of the teachers was assessed by socio-economic status scale. The marital satisfaction scale and job satisfaction scale were used to assess the marital satisfaction and job satisfaction of teachers. Majority of the primary teachers had significantly higher level of marital satisfaction (84.16 %) and job satisfaction (78.75 %) in Roorkee and Dharwad taluk. Roorkee teachers indicated higher marital satisfaction as compared to Dharwad teachers. Rural teachers exhibited higher marital satisfaction as compared to urban teachers. With respect to job satisfaction, urban teachers had higher job satisfaction as compared to rural teachers. It revealed that male teachers had higher marital satisfaction and lower job satisfaction as compared to their female counterparts. Factors like educational qualification, socio-economic status, length of marriage, work experience and monthly salary of teachers had positive and significant relationship with marital satisfaction. In case of job satisfaction factors like socio-economic status, family income, work experience and monthly salary had positive and significant relationship while educational qualification of the teachers had negative and significant relationship with job satisfaction. It also revealed a positive and significant relationship between marital satisfaction and job satisfaction of primary school teachers. Since, job satisfaction among male teachers was low, measures should be taken into consideration which promote their job satisfaction. As female teachers were having lower marital satisfaction, intervention studies are suggested.ThesisItem Open Access Stress, Parenting and Mental Health Among Intact and Single Parent Families(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Chanda, Krutika; Pujar, LataThe 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.ThesisItem Open Access 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.ThesisItem Open Access Socio-Emotional Behaviour, Cognitive Abilities and Nutritional Status: Prevalence, Correlates and Intervention(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Onkari, Daneshwari; Itagi, SunandaStudy was conducted in the year 2016-2018 in Dharwad taluka of Karnataka state. Correlation and differential research design were used. For the prevalence of orphans, 5 percent of villages of Dharwad taluka and Dharwad city were randomly selected. Out of 5128 children, 398 were orphans which indicated 8.97 per cent of prevalence rate in Dharwad taluka. Further 124 orphans from rural area and 110 institutionalized orphans were randomly selected in the age range of 6-18 years to know the influence of personal and familial factors on their socio-emotional behavior, cognitive abilities and nutritional status. The self structured questionnaire, child behaviour checklist, WISC III and socio- economic status scales were used for data collection. Result highlighted that, 49.2 per cent were paternal orphans, 61.3 per cent of them had low level of resilience and 55.6 per cent of them had high level of vulnerability. About 41.3 per cent of orphans experienced more than 5 years of orphanhood. More than half of the orphans (61.3 %) were in clinical range, 24.2 per cent of them were in normal category and only 14.5 per cent of them were in borderline category of socio-emotional behaviour. Vulnerability, conflict, resilience, period of orphanhood and age of the child together found to be significantly influencing on socio-emotional behavior of orphans. 53.8 per cent of orphan children were in the average level of IQ category followed by low average and high average. Boys were having high IQ in verbal, performance as well as full scale intelligence. Almost equal percentages (48-51%) of the orphans belonged to underweight as well as normal category of nutritional status. Age and birth order were significant predictor of nutritional status and explained about 26.0 per cent of variation in the nutritional status of rural orphans. The intervention programme had significant impact on socio-emotional behaviour of orphan children. There was significant reduction in behaviour problems of children.ThesisItem Open Access Influence of Social Maturity on Personality Traits of Urban and Rural High School Students(University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Nadaf, Fatima A.; Patil, ManjulaA study on “Influence of social maturity on personality traits of urban and rural high school students” was undertaken during 2017-2018 in University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad Karnataka on 480 students of urban and rural kannada medium high schools of Dharwad taluk. Social maturity scale was used to assess the social maturity. Millon adolescent personality inventory was used to assess the personality traits. The socio-economic status scale was used to measure the personal and familial factors. Results showed that, majority of the urban and rural high school students showed moderate behavior on social maturity. Social maturity was higher for urban students than rural students. Girls from both urban and rural area had higher social maturity when compared to boys. First borns and 10th standard students in urban area reported higher social maturity. Children of educated mothers possessed higher social maturity. With personality traits, urban students were high on introversive and cooperative personality traits. Rural students were high on inhibited, respectful and sensitive personality traits. Girls were high on cooperative, confident and forceful personality traits than boys. First borns in urban area were high on cooperative and forceful personality traits. Type of school was significantly associated with inhibited, cooperative, sociable, and confident personality traits in rural area. Where, private school students were high on inhibited personality trait and government school students were high on confident and forceful personality traits. There was a significant positive relationship between social maturity and cooperative, confident and respectful personality traits. In rural students, social maturity was positively correlated with confident personality trait and negatively correlated with introversive and sensitive personality traits. So, parents, teachers and administrators have to know about the personality of their children and for students to help them in building a well balanced personality.ThesisItem Open Access Adaptive Behaviour Among Visually Impaired Children(University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharwad, 2018-07) Balligeri, Shambhavi; Hunshal, SaraswatiA study on “Adaptive behaviour among visually impaired children” was carried out in College Of Community Science, University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad during 2016-18 in two cities of Karnataka. The sample for the study comprised 160 visually impaired children in the age range of 10-19 years who were attending special schools in Belagavi and Hubballi cities. Adaptive behaviour assessment system-II edition teacher form (Harrisson and Oakland, 2007) was used to assess the adaptive behaviour of visually impaired children, school environment scale (Agarwal and Pandey, 2017) was used to assess the influence of school environment and children’s perception of parenting scale (Pyari and Karla, 2007) was employed to assess influence of their parents parenting on adaptive behaviour. Further socio economic status (SES) scale (Aggarwal et al., 2005) was used to assess socioeconomic status of the children. The results of the study revealed that children with different types of visual impairment differed significantly with respect to all three dimensions such as conceptual, social, practical as well as overall adaptive behaviour where in congenitally blind children were found better in adaptive behaviour as compared to adventitious blind children. Further results indicated that, among child factors studied, age and onset of visual impairment had significant influence on adaptive behaviour. Among parental factors, education and occupation of parents had significant influence on adaptive behaviour similarly among familial factors, size of the family had significant influence on adaptive behaviour of children. Further school environment of children in which the dimensions such as, physical conditions of the school and functions of teacher had significant influence on adaptive behaviour similarly with respect to children’s perception of parenting, democratic and accepting style of parenting had significant influence on adaptive behaviour of visually impaired children.
