Analyzing maternal education and value pattern of school going adolescents

Mother is considered as the first teacher in the life of a child and it is anticipated that mother’s education level may have some influence on the personality of a child. Therefore, the present investigation was intended to study the impact of maternal education on the value pattern of adolescents. The study was conducted on senior secondary school students of the age group of 15-18 years of Himachal Pradesh (India). The data was collected from the students of twelfth class by using simple random sampling technique. It was assumed that the students having different levels of their maternal education do not differ significantly in their value pattern. For the analysis of data the statistical technique of two-way ANOVA was used. The results of the study indicated that the students whose mothers are illiterate or educated up to primary level have significantly higher mean of political value pattern scores than those whose mothers are educated up to matriculation and higher level, whereas the students whose mothers are educated up to matriculation level have significantly higher mean of social value pattern scores than those whose mothers are educated up to primary level and higher level of education respectively. Students do not differ significantly in their economic and religious value pattern scores at different levels of their maternal education. Maternal education and sex do not interact significantly with respect to political, economic, social and religious value pattern scores of students.