Socio-emotional behaviour of orphans: A pilot study

Pages: 892-894
Daneshwari Onkari and Sunanda Itagi (Department of Human Development and Family Studies
College of Community Science University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka)

The research on socio-emotional behaviour of orphans was conducted in the year 2016-2017 in Dharwad taluka, Karnataka state with objectives to study the prevalence of orphans and to know their socio-emotional behaviour. Data was collected using Child behavior checklist developed by Achenbach (2001) socio-economic status scale by Agarwal et al., 2005 and self structured questionnaire to collect auxiliary information. Prevalence study was conducted in Dharwad taluk Karnataka. About 60 orphans were randomly selected from the prevalence to know their socio-emotional behaviour. Results revealed that 47.06 per cent of the orphans were in the clinical range category of socio-emotional behaviour which indicates that they are in need of immediate and effective intervention stratergies. Around 35.29 per cent and 14.71 per cent were under normal and borderline category of socio-emotional behaviour respectively. There was significant relationship between age and gender with respect to socio emotional behaviour of children.