A comparative study to assess the parental prespective of behavioral problems prevalent among boys and girls in selected community area at Namakkal district

Mohana, C (2014) A comparative study to assess the parental prespective of behavioral problems prevalent among boys and girls in selected community area at Namakkal district. Masters thesis, Sre Sakthimayeil Institute of Nursing and Research, Komarapalayam.

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Abstract

A large member of children suffer from behavioral problems at one time or the other during their growing up year behavioral problems are important determinants of school children ant later success in the labor market. This study use a comparative descriptive design on a sample of 120 children in age group of 6-12 year hailing from an equal number of boys and girls to examine the prevalence of behavioral problem in related to certain socio demographic variables as well as parent characteristic, based on considered choice after review of child behavior check list was used in the study Objectives: to compare the behavioral problem among boys and girls, to find out the association between the behavioral problem and background variable, among boys and girls. Methodology: The investigator proposed to compare the behavioral problems among boys and girls (i.e.) group1 and group 2, therefore the research design used in the study was comparative descriptive design in nature. The total population of olapalayam community is 1228. In this boys and girls age group is between 6-12yrs. This setting is geographical proximity and investigator familiarity with the setting, the selection of setting was done based on feasibility of conducting the study and availability of sample. By using a convenience, sampling non-probability technique was used to select the sample for the study. Behavioral problem checklist by MURPHY.J.MICHAEL, (1995) was used as a questionnaire it consists of two section, they are section A (demographic variables) and section B (behavioral problem checklist) the result shows that Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the values. The obtained’ value was higher than the table value. Conclusion: This study shows that boys have more behavioral problems than girls do.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Parental Prespective; Behavioral Problems; Prevalent; Boys And Girls; Namakkal District
Subjects: NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing
Depositing User: Ramakrishnan J
Date Deposited: 21 Sep 2017 06:19
Last Modified: 21 Sep 2017 16:22
URI: http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/3232

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