Prevalence Rate of Emotional Disturbance among Early Graders: A Diagnostic Study

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the prevalence rate of emotional disturbance at the early childhood level. The study was quantitative in nature. The study was conducted to investigate the prevalence rate of emotional disturbance. Screening of early graders was carried out by the class teacher using screening test regarding emotionally disturbed and stable students. Govt. Girls High school Jalal Pur Jattan Gujrat was taken as a sample. All the students enrolled in early grade were the sample of the study. An instrument “Screening test to screen out emotionally disturbed Students” was developed by the researcher to collect data for the investigation of research objective. Screening test for screening emotionally disturbed students conducted by the class teacher. It was concluded that mostly students were emotionally stable and few students were emotionally disturbed. On the basis of conclusion it was recommend that teachers and parents should be aware about child emotional state and other behavioral problems at early childhood level for their better development and learning, the higher authorities may train teachers to diagnose emotional disturbance among early graders to use different strategies to improve their learning and the school administration may arrange seminars for teachers and parents to aware regarding emotional development and disturbance among early graders for their better emotional development.