Study Habits of Children of Stay-at-Home Mothers and Working Mothers in East Sikkim

Education

Study habits are the pattern of behaviour that a student shows during a regular period of study which occurs in an environment. A student tends to learn systematically and efficiently thus making him/her retain the knowledge for a long time. It consists of one’s home environment, reading and taking notes, making a strategy to study during the examination and doing homework, etc. Apart from all these, a favourable school environment does play its role in developing good study habits in students. This study is an attempt to probe into the study habits of children of stay-at-home mothers and working mothers in the East district of Sikkim. For this study, 101 students who were studying in class X were randomly selected from 6 senior secondary and 2 secondary schools. Data were analyzed by using study habit inventory (English) constructed and standardized by Dr. B.V. Patel (1975) was used to assess the study habits of students. This study found that the majority of students have below normal or poor study habits. Further, it also found no significant difference in study habits of children of working and non-working mothers concerning all 7 components of SHI.

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