ENCOURAGEMENT OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS AMONG HANDICAPPED AND NONHANDICAPPED CHILDREN OF DIVERSIFIED SOCIO- ECONOMIC LEVELS

The present study was conducted to study the encouragement of positive emotions amongst blind,spastic, normal of different socio-economic status by implying a 3x3 two factor factorial design. The elements of the sample were 600 out of which 270 elements were selected as the final sample as per requirement of the research paradigm. Two standardized tests ; the emotional competence scale (2007) and socio-economic status scale (2006) constructed and standardized by Sharma and Bhardwaj and Bhardwaj were used for the collection of data. It may be concluded that encouragement of positive emotions have been found more in spastic children high socio-economic status in comparison to both the normal and blind children of same status. Both the normal and blind children of low socio-economic status also have more positive emotions as compared to spastic ones of low socio-economic status.

By Dr. Ritu Agrawal 

(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)