CORRELATES OF PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION AND FAMILY ADJUSTMENT

With an objective to study the relation and the factors inuencing parent child-interaction and family adjustment, the present study was conducted in Dharwad taluka with 50 children studying at laboratory nursery school of department of Human Development and Family Studies. Parent Child Interaction (PCI) scale developed by Meisles (1989) and Parenting and Family Adjustment Scale (PAFAS) developed by Sanders and Morawska (2010) were used for data collection. The data was analyzed using correlation, t-test and Chi-square. Results revealed a negative signicant relationship between ordinal position and family adjustment indicating that the rst born having less family adjustment. A positive and signicant relationship between parent-child interaction and family adjustment indicating higher the parent child interaction better is the family adjustment. A negative signicant difference was found between number of children and parent child interaction, family income and parent child interaction. A negative signicant difference was found between number of children and parent child interaction, family income and parent child interaction. The results revealed that, a signicant difference (t= 2.40*) at 5 per cent level was observed in family adjustments between children having different ordinal positions. Further a signicant difference was observed in family adjustment among children having parents with different educational levels.