PARENTAL SUPERVISION PRACTICES AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOURS IN CHILDREN: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Mala Murlidhar; Dr. Shailaja Shastri

Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2016

PARENTAL SUPERVISION PRACTICES AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOURS IN CHILDREN: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Mala Murlidhar, Dr. Shailaja Shastri

Abstract :

Supervision on children shows the parental awareness and knowledge about their child’s everyday whereabouts and activities. It shows the involvement of parents in their children’s activities. The present paper tries to understand the supervision practices of parents in the sample population and to understand its relationship to aggressive behaviours of children. The present study identified 366 children as displaying aggressive behaviours from 38 private schools in Bangalore city with the help of a teacher’s rating scale. The parents of the children were contacted to administer the survey questionnaire on their supervision practices. 150 parents (father and mother) were interviewed and administered the questionnaire. The results showed that there is a significant inverse relationship between parental supervision practices in different areas and children’s display of different types of aggressive behaviour in schools according to the rating of the class teachers. It was also seen that in the present population selected, parents’ had a tendency to supervise keenly on their children in all their school related activities and the least supervised area was activities at home. It was concluded that parental supervision has a very significant role to play in the positive development of children and it can act as a preventive medicine to reduce the risks of negative outside influence on children