Emotional intelligence, hearing impaired children.

A sample of the study comprised of 300 high school children in the age group of 13-16 year from five urban high school of Dharwad taluk. Creative thinking scale developed by mehdi (1989) and creative thinking check list developed by AICRIP-CD Dharwad center (2010) were used to assess the creative thinking ability of children. The result of the study revealed that majority of children showed high level of creative thinking ability and none of them belonged to low category of creative thinking ability. There was no influence of type of school, age and gender on creative thinking ability of children.

In today’s world, many of us rely on social media. Though each has its benefits spending too much time on social media can lead to many mental health issues. So the present study on the effect of social media addiction on mental health of emerging adults was conducted in Dharwad district of Karnataka state during the year 2020-21 to assess the social media addiction and its effect on mental health of emerging adults. One hundred and sixty students were selected randomly from arts and science degree colleges of Dharwad city. Data was collected from the students by using self structured questionnaire, social media addiction scale and mental health inventory which gathered information about social media usage, social media addiction and mental health level of emerging adults respectively. Results found that majority were using 1-3 GB of data per day on social media sites and were posting pictures and videos daily on these sites. Majority were using social media without the knowledge of parents by spending more time than desired by ignoring responsibilities. There was a negative relationship between social media addiction and mental health status and using excessive social media has negative effect which is influencing academic performance.

A study on concept development among preschool children was carried out in Ranebennur Taluk of Haveri district, Karnataka state. The sample for the study comprised of 120 preschool children, of whom 40 were from rural, 40 from tribal and 40 from urban areas of Ranebennur Taluk. From each area 20 boys and 20 girls in the age group of 3-5 years were selected randomly from 24 Anganwadi Kendras. Home environment inventory developed by Mohit (1990) was used to assess the home environment of children. The Socioeconomic status scale developed by Aggarwal et al. (2005) was employed to assess the SES of the family. Results revealed that majority of preschool children from urban group had good home and preschool children from tribal and rural area had moderate home environment. Significant association was found between fathers' education and home environment among urban group preschool children. Results also revealed a significant relationship between mothers' education and home environment of urban preschool children.

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