Page No.137-141
Vidhya Ravindranadan and Raju,S.
University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram
The study attempts to ascertain the level of adjustment and attitude of parents of
children with mental retardation. The sample consists of 50 parents (either mother
or father) of children diagnosed as mentally retarded. Parental age group is 25-50
yrs. The tools used for the measurement of variables are An Adjustment Inventory,
Scale of Parental Attitude Towards Mental Retardates, and a Personal Data Sheet.
Subjects have been grouped on the basis of Religion, Education, Locality, and Income.
The data were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test. The results
indicated that parental religion, income, and education do not have any significant
influence on adjustment variables, but there is change in parental attitude among
different religious groups. Locality of parents influences only on the dimensions of
social adjustment and parental attitude.
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