Child temperament influence on social and emotional development of children in different ECCE centers

Abstract

The study was conducted in Dharwad taluk of Karnataka state during the year 2018-20 to know the effect of child temperament on social and emotional development. Total sample of 208 children of age between 3-6 years of children attending different ECCE centers in rural and urban areas of Dharwad taluk. The study investigated the following objectives: To assess the social and emotional development of rural and urban children and to know the influence of child temperament on social and emotional development of children in rural and urban areas. Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment-2 tool was used to assess the social and emotional development of children. Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire scale was used to measure temperament of children between the ages of 3 years to 7 years. The qualitative approach involved naturalistic observation method to document, analyze and study the impact of play-based activities on social and emotional development. Naturalistic observation was made during children involved in free play through video recording which was complemented with participant observation which included by taking field notes. Results revealed that majority of the children in both rural and urban anganwadi belonged to watch and concern category of social and emotional development. The significant association was found between dimensions of temperament (surgency and effortful control) and social and emotional development of children. There was significant difference between levels of child temperament and social and emotional development. The difference value explained that among children with low (18.06), moderate (23.58) and high (23.87) levels of surgency there as significant difference between levels of child temperament and social and emotional development. Where as in case effortful control there was significant difference between levels of child temperament and social and emotional development. Higher the effortful control higher the social and emotional development.