Maternal Involvement and Attitude Towards Pre-School Education
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Date
2011
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
A study on “Maternal involvement and attitude towards preschool education”
was conducted in Dharwad taluka during 2010-11. Two hundred mothers of
preschool children with age range of three to six years, residing in rural (n=100) and
urban area (n=100) of Dharwad taluka were selected for the study. Kale (1974) scale
on Parent-Child Interaction was used to assess the extent of interaction between
mother and children and Venkatesan (2002) scale on Parental Attitude towards
Preschool Education was used to assess the maternal attitude towards preschool
education. Aggarwal et al. (2005) scale was used to assess the socio economic status
of a family. Correlation coefficient and‘t’ test were used for analysing the data. The
results of the present investigation revealed that majority of the mothers from rural
(75.0%) and urban (56.0%) area had medium level of involvement and 44 percent of
mothers from urban and 25 percent mothers from rural area had high level of
involvement with their children. The demographic factors such as education,
occupation, family income and socio economic status were positively and
significantly influenced the maternal involvement with their children. Mothers from
both urban and rural (75.0% and 85.0%) area had average attitude towards preschool
education and none of mothers from both the locality had unfavourable and highly
unfavourable attitude towards preschool education. The demographic factors like age,
education and occupation of the mothers, family size, family income and socio
economic status were not significantly influenced mothers’ attitude towards preschool
education. Maternal involvement with their children and attitude towards preschool
education did not vary according to age, gender and ordinal position of the child.
Maternal involvement and their attitude towards preschool education was positively
and significantly related. Hence as the mother’s involvement with their children
increased, their attitude towards preschool education also increased.