A comparitive study on effects of academic stimulation on soft skills and social skills of children

Abstract

Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities. Stimulation refers to how organisms perceive incoming stimuli. As such it is part of the stimulus-response mechanism. The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state. Two areas were selected purposively i.e., rural and urban, from urban area Hisar city and from rural area two villages namely Balsmand and Kharia were taken for collection of data. A total of 200 children in three age groups, namely, 3, 4 and 5 years were selected for the study. Academic stimulation was taken as independent variable. Soft skills and social skills were taken as dependent variable. Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale of Social Maturity (Sparrow et al., 1935) was used to determine soft skills and social skills among children. Home inventory by Caldwell and Bradley (1984) was used to assess the Academic stimulation among children. Result revealed that soft skills were significantly related with learning stimulation in rural areas but not significantly in urban areas and social skills were not related with learning stimulation in rural and urban areas.