Cognitive competence of pre-schoolers in relation to maternal intellectual abilities and home environment
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2009
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CCSHAU
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The present study was conducted in urban rural area in Hisar city of Haryana with
the aim to assess the cognitive competence of pre-schoolers and the intellectual abilities
of their mothers and to find out the influence of maternal intelligence, socio-economic
status and home environment on the cognitive competence of the pre-schoolers.
Experimental material comprised 240 respondents from that the 120 were their mothers
and 120 were the pre-schoolers selected from both rural (60) and urban (6) during the age
of 2-3 years. From rural area anganwadis and homes of two villages namely Singhran and
Harita were visited and from urban area preschools and homes were selected in Hisar
city. The simple comprised of 30 boys and 30 girls in the age group of 2-3 years from
both the location. Results regarding profiles of children indicated that majority of the
children’s parents had education up to senior secondary level in rural areas and upto
graduation level in urban areas. With regard to occupation majority of children belonged
to agricultural background in rural areas and service in urban areas whereas in case of
family time in rural area the most of children belonged to the medium size of family and
in urban they belonged to small size family. Majority of children belonged to nuclear
family in both the areas. Children from urban areas surpassed children from rural areas in
cognitive competence on Bayley scale. The cognitive competence of children was
significantly correlated with the maternal intelligence in urban area.
Regarding associations the cognitive competence of children was not influenced
by the socio-economic status in both the location. Some aspects of home environment
such as learning and language stimulation, acceptance and the total home environment
were significantly associated with intellectual abilities of urban children whereas only
two aspects namely learning and physical stimulation were significantly associated with
intellectual abilities of rural children.
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