Temperament and mother-child Interaction
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Date
2014
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The present study was conducted in Dhobi village of Hisar district of Haryana state. One
hundred children, i.e., 50 boys and 50 girls in the age group of 6 to 8 years who had at least one
younger sibling were selected randomly. Mothers of these children also participated in the study.
Mothers’ assessed their own temperament, their children’s temperament and their interaction with
children. Fifty nine percent children were in the age group of 6-7 years and the remaining in the age
group of 7+-8 years. Forty six per cent were in class one and 48 per cent in class two.
Majority of mothers fell in intermediate category of sociability, ascendant, secretiveness,
reflective, impulsivity, placid, accepting, responsible, cooperative, persistence, aggressive, tolerance
and tough-minded dimensions of temperament. In vigorous and warmth dimensions of temperament,
majority of mothers were in high category. Mean scores of target sample for sociability, emotionality,
energy, distractibility and rhythmicity dimensions were almost similar to that of standard mean scores
given by Malhotra and Malhotra (1988). Majority of children fell in intermediate category of
sociability and energy; and majority of children belonged to high category of emotionality and
rythmicity. These are indicators of easy temperamental style. Boys were more energetic and distractible
than girls. Results showed that majority of mothers were highly affectionate and average to high in
responsiveness, encouragement and teaching domains of mother-child interaction. Mothers were more
responsive and were more involved in teaching with boys as compared to girls. Parental education has
positive relationship with responsiveness, encouragement and teaching domains of mother-child
interaction.
Sociable children were likely to have sociable, reflective, placid, persistent, accepting,
vigorous, warm, tolerant and tough-minded mothers. Happy children were likely to have mothers who
were reflective, responsible, co-operative, ascendant, placid, accepting, persistent, warm and tolerant.
Rhythmic children had mothers who were sociable, vigorous, persistent, impulsive, accepting,
responsible and tough-minded in temperament. These are indicators of ‘goodness of fit’ between
children’s and mothers’ temperament.
Highly energetic children were more likely to have mothers who were temperamentally
vigorous, tolerant, reflective, impulsive, cooperative and persistent. Children who were high on
distractibility dimensions of temperament had mothers who were high on ascendant, reflective,
sociability, impulsivity, placid, accepting, vigorous, persistence and aggressiveness dimensions of
temperament.
Easy children were likely to have positive interaction with their mothers and that there tend to
be good ‘fit’ between children’s temperament and mother-child interaction. Affectionate, responsive,
encouraging mothers involved in teaching their children were temperamentally sociable, ascendant,
reflective, responsible, vigorous, cooperative, persistent, warm and tolerant.
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