WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

*Anjaly Kurian C. and Dhanya Jose

ABSTRACT

Children attend school to learn and to grow intellectually and socially. In the life of a child therefore, education is a key element. The present study investigated the perception and self-efficacy of parents towards school readiness of their preschool children among 100 parents in a selected Kindergarten, Ernakulum. The objectives of the study were to assess the parental perception and self-efficacy towards school readiness of their preschool children, and to find the correlation between parental perception and self-efficacy towards school readiness. It also aimed to find out the association between parental perception, parental self-efficacy and demographic variable. A descriptive cross-sectional school-based survey design was employed. The samples were selected using simple random technique. The tools were Developmental Instrument for School Readiness and Parental Self Efficacy Scale. The findings showed that, 63% of the parents perceive that their children are ready and 27% were very ready to school. With regard to parental self-efficacy 93% parents had high and 7% had medium self-efficacy towards school readiness of their preschool children. The present study adds that, there was significant correlation between parental perception and parental self-efficacy towards school readiness of their preschool children (p = 0.02). The result also revealed that, there was an association between parental perception and occupation of mother (p = 0.008), parental self-efficacy and number of children in the family (p = 0.002).

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