Perception of Parental Practices and Acquisition of Moral Values in Late Childhood Years
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2021
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
The role played by parents is of significance throughout the life span.
Parenting role has its unique characteristics and affects the developmental
characteristics of the children as they grow. Parents play a vital and the most
influential role throughout the life of an individual, specifically from birth until
adolescence. They not only fulfill the biological needs such as physical care, proper
food, fresh air, good lightning, enough sleep and recreation but also endow a safe,
nurturing and supportive environment in order to foster an optimistic and overall
development of the child through guidance, communication and interaction between
the two generations. When this type of parenting is effective, the norms set by the
parents will be internalized by the children. Keeping in view this perspective, the
present study was conducted with the purpose to explore the relationship between
parental practices and acquisition of moral values among children (9-12 years)
belonging to high, middle and low income group nuclear families and residing in
Udaipur city. A sample of 300 students (100 students, i.e. 50 boys and 50 girls,
belonging to each income group) was drawn purposively through a preliminary
survey in selected schools. The tools on “Parental Practices” and “Moral Value
System” were constructed and standardized to assess and compare the parental
practices and moral values of children. For assessing the level of parental practices
and moral values in children based on gender and socio economic status,
‘Frequency’ and ‘Percentage’ were calculated for various selected dimensions. For
comparing perception of parental practices and the level of moral values in children
based on gender, Z-test for difference between two means was computed. To
compare the data on the basis of socioeconomic status, one way ANOVA test was
used to find out the difference in parental practices and level of moral values in
children belonging to high, middle and low income group. To find out the association of perception of parental practices and acquisition of moral values, chisquare
test was used. Results of the study indicate that greater number of
respondents obtained higher range of scores in the percentage distribution for the
level of parental practices. There were no significant differences observed in the
level of parental practices gender wise, whereas, significant differences were
observed in the level of parental practices on the basis of socio-economic status, i.e.,
highest in the children from high income group families, followed by middle and
lowest in the low income group families. Maximum number of respondents obtained
higher range of scores in the percentage distribution for the level of moral values
system. There was no significant difference observed gender wise, while, there were
significant differences observed in the scores obtained in each income group.
Majority of children from high income group were having high level of positive
moral values, followed by middle and least was in children belonging to low income
group. In case of negative values, majority of children from high income group were
having low level of negative moral values, while children from the low income
group were observed to have higher level of negative moral values. As per the
results of the present study, there was an overall association between perception of
parental practices and acquisition of moral values. There was a significant
association observed between perception of parental practices and moral values in
females. With regard to the socio-economic status, there was association between
perception of parental practices and moral values for children belonging to low
income group families. Case-studies were conducted to find out the impact of
parental practices and factors affecting in acquisition of moral values in children.
Guidelines were formulated the family, educational institutions and community on
the basis of case study and findings of the study.
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Perception of Parental Practices and Acquisition of Moral Values in Late Childhood Years
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Sinha S. and Audichya S.