Families play a pivotal role in providing the most congenial atmosphere to children for their style of life and basic patterns of behavior. Parents are chief role model in shaping the personality of a child. The quality of relationship with parents and their children allows them to grow and explore and gain experience. This study aims to assess the Psychosocial development of children among joint and nuclear family members The study was conducted in selected schools of chennai, 30 children were selected using non probability purposive sampling technique. Erik Erikson modified psychosocial development checklist was used to assess the Psychosocial development of children among joint and nuclear family members. The study findings reveals that, mean score of psychosocial development of Nuclear family children was 10.86 with a standard deviation of 9.52 and mean score of joint family was 26.78 with a standard deviation of 5.17 There is a statistically significant difference between the joint and nuclear family children score on Psychosocial development. Therefore the joint family children had higher Psychosocial development compared to nuclear family children At 5% level of significance respectively. This study findings was supported by Ms. Priyanka Gurav et al .,2019 conducted a study on A comparative study on joint verses nuclear family regarding Social, cognitive and language development among pre-school children and the study findings revealed that Mean value of social, cognitive and language development in joint family were 13.35, 13.73 and 11.23 and SD were 2.4, 2.55 and 2.05. While in nuclear family social, cognitive and language were 9.49, 9.87, 7.69 and SD were 2.0, 2.9, and 1.9. Total mean score of joint family was 38.31; SD was 5.29 and in nuclear family mean score was 27.5; SD was 5.3. (p value:<0.05).
Joint family, Nuclear family, Psychosocial development, School children etc
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