Attitude of mothers towards influence of outdoors games on physical, mental, social and emotional development

Abstract

To study the Attitude of mothers towards influence of outdoors games on physical, mental, social and emotional development. A list of children was prepared for each selected class in consultation with respective principal and class teachers. From these lists 100 preschooler (in junior and senior class) were randomly selected for taking information regarding health status by anthropometric measurement and observing common health problems. 100 mother of preschooler were selected from the Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad city by taking the address from pre- school institution and collect the data by direct home visit method. The information recorded through questionnaire and personal interview method. The collected information was analyzed as frequency, percentage and tabulated and also computed for t- analysis and used. The result of the study reveal that majority (73%) of the respondents said that high level influence of outdoors games on healthy physical development of preschool children. Majority of the respondents (90%) agree that overall development is occur in their child by outdoor game and 86 percent respondents agree that sensory development is occur in their child by outdoor game. Significant (t ≥ 0.05) difference was found for effect of overall development of children by outdoor play.