Self Concept and Social Maturity of Urban and Rural Primary School Children

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2011
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UAS, Dharwad
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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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