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- Aptitude:Comparison among Rural and Urban School Students
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Lata Pujar
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Krutika Chanda
2
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
2 Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
2 Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
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IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review, Vol 5, No 4 (2017), Pagination: 650-653Abstract
Aptitude is a condition or set of characteristics regarded as symptomatic of an individual's ability to acquire with training some usually specified knowledge, skill and set of responses. Aptitude tests in today's competitive world; it helps school students throughout their lives and has a really huge impact on their outlook towards life. This study is taken on school students to know their potential so that it helps them in choosing their career and to select the different streams for their future. Hence the study was undertaken with objectives to know the aptitude of urban and rural school students and to know the differences on aptitude dimensions. The samples were selected from two urban and two rural schools among which were 40 urban and 40 rural school students were randomly selected from 9th and 10th standards. The data was collected using differential aptitude testing developed by Bennett et al. (1993) on verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, mechanical reasoning and scholastic aptitude. The results indicated that significant difference was observed between urban and rural school student. Among urban group most of the students belonged to high level of aptitude dimensions like verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, mechanical reasoning and scholastic aptitude. There was significant difference between boys and girls with dimensions of aptitude among rural and urban school students.Keywords
Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Mechanical Reasoning and Scholastic Aptitude.- Aptitude:Comparison Among Rural and Urban School Students
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Authors
Lata Pujar
1,
Krutika Chanda
1
Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
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International Journal of Education and Management Studies, Vol 8, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 7-10Abstract
Aptitude is a condition or set of characteristics regarded as symptomatic of an individual's ability to acquire with training some usually specified knowledge, skill and set of responses. Aptitude tests in today's competitive world; it helps school students throughout their lives and has a really huge impact on their outlook towards life. This study is taken on school students to know their potential so that it helps them in choosing their career and to select the different streams for their future. Hence the study was undertaken with objectives to know the aptitude of urban and rural school students and to know the differences on aptitude dimensions. The samples were selected from two urban and two rural schools among which were 40 urban and 40 rural school students were randomly selected from 9th and 10th standards. The data was collected using differential aptitude testing developed by Bennett et al. (1993) on verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, mechanical reasoning and scholastic aptitude. The results indicated that significant difference was observed between urban and rural school student. Among urban group most of the students belonged to high level of aptitude dimensions like verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, mechanical reasoning and scholastic aptitude. There was significant difference between boys and girls with dimensions of aptitude among rural and urban school students.Keywords
Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Mechanical Reasoning, and Scholastic Aptitude.- Mental Health of Single Parents
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1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 9, No 3 (2018), Pagination: 373-376Abstract
Single parenting is a situation in which one of the two individuals either mother or father is solely responsible for the upbringing of their children. Thus the study is taken up with an objective to know the problems and mental health of the single parent and to know the relationship between age, SES with mental health. The data was collected from four villages of Dharwad taluk during the year 2017-18. The samples were 15 female single parents from each village who were randomly selected. Totally the sample comprised of 60 female single parents. The criterion for selecting the female single parent was that they should have at least one child/ children aged from 0-25 years. The data was collected through door-to-door survey using the tools like the structured questionnaire was used to collect personal information and problem faced by the single parents. The socio-economic status of the family was assessed by using socio-economic status scale developed by Agaarwal et al. (2005) and mental health inventory developed by Jagadish and Srivastava (1983) to know the mental health status of the individual. The results revealed that that 70 per cent reported death of their spouse was one of the reasons for being single parent followed by divorce in 16.67 per cent and 13.33 percent were separated. About 93.33 per cent of single parents faced financial problems while 53.33 per cent of them were getting support from their parents followed by relatives, children, friends, co-workers. In the present study majority of the single parents had poor mental health (48.33 %) and very poor mental health (40 %). There was significant relationship and association between the age, SES with mental health.Keywords
Single Parent, Separation, Divorced and Mental Health.References
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