INFLUENCE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON SOCIAL MATURITY AMONG CHILDREN RESIDING IN ORPHANAGES

The main aim of the project was to study the influence of educational program on social maturity among boys and girls residing in orphanages at Urban Bangalore district. Self structured questionnaire was developed and administered on a sample of 80 children which consisted of 40 boys and 40 girls, between the age group of 9-12 years. A module of intervention program was developed by the researcher and executed for the experimental group of respondents for a period of 3 months separately for boys and girls in the selected orphanages. The statistical analysis was carried out by applying percentage, standard deviation, mean, chi square and paired ?t? test. The findings revealed that, majority of boys and girls belonged to the age group of 12 years and were from non-orphans category (presence of both the parents but living in orphanages). Further, the results showed in post-test the mean score percentage found to be higher as compared to pre-test mean score which is significant at 5% level which showed the influence of educational program. In all the dimensions of social maturity the 't' values found to be statistically significant among (p<0.05) both boys and girls. During the post-test both boys and girls showed a higher score on the level of social maturity as compared to pre-test scores, the obtained chi-square value (93.49) found to be significant beyond 5 percent level.