FAMILIAL INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
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10-08-01
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE
Abstract
The main aim of the study was to know " Familial influence
on the social development of preschool children The study was
conducted during the year 1998-1999 in two randomly selected villages
of Dharwad taluka (Narendra and Amminabhavi) and in Dharwad city of
Karnataka state. Multistage sampling was used for the selection of the
sample. The sample comprised of 128 preschool children (3+ to 5+ years)
and their mothers. In which 64 children were accepted and 64 children
were rejected according to socio-metric ratings. Both questionnaire (for
literates) and interview schedule (for illiterates) methods were used for
the data collection. Results revealed that in both rural and urban areas,
accepted children had significantly higher social skills than rejected
ones. Whereas rejected children had more of problem behaviours
(internalizing) than accepted ones, in which boys and urban group
showed more of problem behaviours. In both rural as well as urban areas
parents of accepted children had significantly better marital relationships
than parents of rejected ones, in that marital relationships of urban
parents was significantly higher than rural parents. In both rural and
urban areas accepted children had families with significantly better
family functioning than rejected ones, in which family functioning of
urban group was significantly better than rural group. Family
functioning was the only factor which significantly and positively
influenced the social skills of children where as it significantly and
negatively influenced the problem behaviours of children in both rural as
well as urban areas. The combined effect of socio-economic factors,
marital relationships of parents and family functioning brought a
significant variation in social skills of children i.e. 67 per cent (rural) and
81 per cent (urban). Whereas combined effect of all the factors taken
together brought a significant variation in problem behaviours of children
i.e. 64 per cent (rural) and 65 per cent (urban).
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