A study of the impact of caregiver personality and family structure on the social maturity of children with mild intellectual disability
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Caregiver personality and family styles have a major role in the upbringing and personality development of children in the family. The major purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in social maturity scores of children with mild intellectual disability raised in a joint family and nuclear family and to study the difference in social maturity scores of these children with primary caregivers possessing introvert and extrovert personality characteristics. Methodology: The study used a purposive sampling method to study sixty-one children raised care-givers who were either introverts or extroverts and coming from both joint and nuclear family structure. The children were administered the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and caregivers were administered the Introversion Scale. The study used a sample with a wide age range, ANCOVA was used to keep the age as a covariate. Results: Results indicated that contrary to expectations, introvert care givers were more likely to raise children with greater social maturity (p=0.029) and that family type whether joint or nuclear, had no effect on the social maturity of the child as measured by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale. Conclusions: Family constellation and caregiver personality type do play a role in the social development of a child with intellectual disability though further studies in this direction are warranted.
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Juhi Gupta
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- EP ID EP250609
- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.3.3.2016.318-323
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