Cartoon Viewing of Upper Primary Students in Relation to their Study Habits in West Bengal

This present study focuses on relationships between Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits. It is conducted with the objective of identifying the level of Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits in VI to VIII grade students in relation to their sex and location of school in West Bengal. The sample consists of 300 (150 male and 150 female) upper primary VI to VIII grade students selected by simple random sampling technique from two districts (Nadia and North 24 Parganas) in West Bengal. Descriptive survey method is used in this study to obtain relevant and proper information to elicit opinion of rural & urban school students about their Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits at school. The tools used are the Cartoon Viewing Scale and Study Habits Scale to collect the data. Major statistical techniques used for analysis the data are correlation and‘t’ test. The researcher finds out that there is on mean difference of Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits of the Upper primary students across categorical variables without between Rural Male and Urban Male of Upper Primary Students of Study Habits. And there exist positive significant correlation between Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits of Rural Male, Rural Female, Urban and Rural Upper primary students in West Bengal. On the other hand, the researcher found a negative significant correlation between Cartoon Viewing and Study Habits of Male, Female and total (Male and Female) Upper primary students in West Bengal. Keywords: Cartoon Viewing, Study Habits, Upper Primary Students, gender differences, and Locality.