INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT OF JOINT AND NUCLEAR FAMILY CHILDREN STUDYING AT HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL

Nidhi Mathur and Rajshree Vaishnav

No 2017-24-01, Working papers from Voice of Research

Abstract: Indian society is always considered as traditional and well cultured society due to its joint family system since ancient times. Family plays very significant role in development of children. The impact of globalization and modernization resulted into breaking of traditional system of joint family into nuclear family in India. The Joint and nuclear both type of systems of families have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of raising of children and providing facilities to family members. The present study is an attempt to compare the intelligence and social adjustment level of children belonging to joint and nuclear family. To study the impact of family type on intelligence and social adjustment of high school students a sample of sample of 2400 students belonging to joint and nuclear family has been selected. The intelligence and social adjustment score of children belonging to joint and nuclear family is compared using t test. It has been found that children belonging to joint family having better intelligence and social adjustment than the children belong to nuclear family at high school level. Key Words:Intelligence, social-adjustment, joint family, Nuclear family, high school level Policy

Date: 2017-12
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