Socio-Emotional Development and Adaptive Behavior of Young Children and it’s Correlates
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2018-10
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
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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.