Maternal acceptance-rejection among upper primary school pupils with reference to types of family and income

Abstract Major purpose of the research is to discover the effect of joint and nuclear family and total monthly income of family of upper primary school pupils on maternal acceptance-rejection. Total 600 upper primary school pupils selected as a sample, out of that, 276 pupils from joint family and 324 from nuclear family. In another same group 287 pupils from low total monthly of family and 313 pupils from high total monthly income of family. Data regarding study were collect from 5 taluka’s of north-east Banaskantha. For gathering the information regarding relation of pupils with their mother parental acceptance-rejection scale developed (Rohner, 2005) Indian adaption of Dr. Jai Prakash and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava (2015) and its Gujarati standardized version by Jadav (2025) was used, Data were analysis by ‘t’ test. Result show that, the proportion of maternal rejection among pupils from joint families is higher than that of pupils from nuclear families. The level of maternal rejection is higher in low total monthly income family pupil’s, other side maternal acceptance is more in high total monthly income family pupil’s.