A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON GENATIC INFLUENCE ON TEMPERAMENT OF MONOZYGOTIC TWINS IN TWO CULTURAL ZONES

The study was to compare the temperament of monozygotic twins in the age group of 4 -10 years. The present study was conducted in four districts namely; Hisar Fatehabad, Rohtak, and Jind of Haryana state with the purpose of availability of maximum numbers of twins in the required age group identified under UGC project of the department. A sample of 104monozygotic twins was shorted out from already identified twins from two cultural zones. There was Childe temperament was dependent variable and cultural zones were the independent variable in this study. Child's temperament was assessed with the help of Malhotra's Temperament Schedule (MTS, 1988). The result shows that the monozygotic twins of bar zone performed better than the khadar zone monozygotic twins. KEYWORDS: Child Temperament, Twins, Genetic, Monozygotic, Environment & Behavior Problems