Self Concept and Social Maturity of Urban and Rural Primary School Children
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2011
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
Self concept and social maturity of urban and rural primary school children
carried out in Dharwad taluk of Karnataka during 2010-11 revealed that majority of
the children (93.3%) of urban and rural (94.7%) children had high level of self
concept. On social maturity, 66 per cent of urban and 70 per cent of rural children
were slightly socially matured. Self concept improved with age. Self concept was
significantly associated with their perceived health and aspiration, parenting style,
father’s education, occupation and family size had positive influence on self concept.
The self concept was significantly related with academic achievement. Children
characteristics such as gender, ordinal position, sibling status did not influence self
concept. Self concept doesn’t improved with school transition and with friendship
ties, caste, family type, family living standard, family income had no influence on self
concept.
Social maturity was improved with age, gender, sibling status, father’s
occupation, family type, family size and family living standard. The social maturity
was positively related with self concept. Factors such as ordinal position, school
transition, perceived friendship ties, aspiration, father’s education, mother’s
occupation, parenting style, family income and socio-economic status has no
influence on social maturity. Academic achievement had negative influence on social
maturity. Children studying in Government and private (aided and unaided) schools in
urban and rural areas from English and Kannada medium in 5th to 7th standard were
drawn equally on the basis of peer acceptance, peer rejection, age and gender with a
total sample 300 children. Ahluwalia self concept scale (2003), Rao’s (1971) scale for
social maturity, Aggarwal’s (2005) socio-economic status tools were used. Sociometry
was employed for selecting peer accepted and peer rejected children. General
information schedule was used to elicit information regarding child’s, parents and
familial characteristics.
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Human Development