CHILD REARING PRACTICE AMONG WORKING AND NON-WORKING MOTHERS - A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Author Name: 1Prof. Johncy Rani R, 2 Mr. Mohammed Rafi

Volume: 01 &  Issue:

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/01.2021-53525891/UIJIR

Affiliation:

¹Principal Cum HOD Dept. Of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Apex College of Nursing, Varanasi, India

²Assisstant Professor Cum Deputy Nursing Superintendent, Apex College of Nursing, Varanasi, India

ABSTRACT

Childhood is the most sensitive period in the life of the child, which molds the physical and the intellectual features. The mother is a right and appropriate person to observe the child carefully. A comparative study to assess the child rearing practice among working and non-working mothers in the selected rural areas of Varanasi 1.To assess the child rearing practice among the mothers, 2.To compare the child rearing practice among the working and non-working mothers, 3.To associate the child rearing practice of the mothers with the selected demographic variable A non-experimental research design was adopted for the study. 60mothers were selected by purposive sampling technique out of which 30 were working and 30 were house wives who have children’s of 5-12 years of age from the rural areas of Varanasi. The tool administered to the sample consisted of two sections including the socio-demographic data and a standardized tool by Alabama on child rearing practices. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to draw the result. The results showed that the good practice of child rearing practice was 27 (90%) among the non-working mothers wherein the working mothers had only 20 (66.6%). and majority 10 (33.3%) of the working mothers had acceptable practice and only 3 (10%) of the non-working mothers had acceptable practice. On comparison, the paired t-test showed 4.763 at the level of p value <0.000025 showing the significance in the child rearing practice between working and non-working mothers.There was no statistically significant association between the mothers on child rearing practice with the selected demographic variables. The study results shows that non-working mothers impart better child rearing practice than the working mothers, yet most of the mothers apply the outmost best effort in child rearing practice. More health education and teaching sessions can be organized to all the mothers’ on good child rearing practice to improve the child’s health and future in a holistic way.

Key words: Clinical Self Efficacy, Nursing, Nursing students.