Parental satisfaction towards pre-school education in context of joint and nuclear family parents

Abstract

Parent involvement is linked to children’s school learning. When parents are satisfied with the Quality of pre-school education provided to their children, they tend to involve themselves in School activities hence improved children’s enrollment, retention, participation and achievement rates. Parental Satisfaction is one of the major components of the mental health of parents. If the kid is performing well in his academics, school environment is sound and secure than in this sort of conditions parents feel safe and mental health of the parents will be healthy where in the other case when school is inappropriate in that sort of condition parents feel insecure and they continuously feel stressed during the school timings of the kids. Thus in this manner parental satisfaction is one of the major components which decides the mental health of the parents. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the satisfaction of parents about preschool education. The participants were 120 parents whose children are attending a private school. The data collected via paper pencil test named Parental Satisfaction Scale towards pre-school education by Dr.Gayatri Tiwari, Ms. Usha Devi and Ms. Sneha Jain. It was collected by researcher. t-test was used for the analysis of data. Results indicate that there is no significant difference between joint and nuclear families in parental satisfaction towards preschool education.