Mental Alertness, Self-esteem and Emotional Intelligence of Underprivileged Students: A Remedial Intervention Program

Abstract

Aim: To assess the remedial training intervention on mental alertness, self-esteem, emotional intelligence of underprivileged. Study Design: The present study is experimental design and adopts remedial intervention program. Place and Duration of Study: Underprivileged students of high school (Bidar district of North Karnataka, India). Methodology: Underprivileged students of 9th standard were selected from Government high schools located in Bidar district using the purposive sampling technique and in the first phase, the pre-test was conducted and based on the results the intervention program over a period of six months was conducted. Mental alertness scale developed by Srivastava [1] self-esteem scale developed by Prasad Thakur [2] and emotional intelligence developed by Shettal Prasad [3]. The questionnaires were administered in both phases i.e. pre-test and post-test. Sample: Underprivileged students 120 studying at 9th grade were included both boys and girls. Results: Paired t-test was used for data analysis and it was found that there is a significant difference in mental alertness, self-esteem and emotional intelligence of underprivileged in post-test; this means remedial intervention training has an effect on students learning process. Conclusion: The remedial intervention program has an effect on mental alertness, self-esteem and emotional intelligence. Therefore, underprivileged students’ needs special care and attention for their learning process as they are lack in proper parenting style and hence such remedial program can be planned based upon the students’ academic achievements and this should be the major part of the school curriculum for underprivileged.