Influence of Socio Economic Status on Study Habits of Adarsha Vidyalaya Students of Odisha

The socioeconomic status of a child is usually determined by parental educational level, parental occupational status and income level. It affects the overall functioning of humans, including mental and physical health. On the other hand study habits play an important role in the achievement of the students at all levels of education. But it has been seen from earlier study that study habits of students is influence by socioeconomic status to a great extent. The main objectives of the topic are to find out the mean difference of study habits among class-VIII students of Adarsha Vidyalaya belong to high, average and poor socio economic status. A sample size of 500 Class-VIII Students from 10 Adarsha Vidyalayas of Bargarh, Bolangir and Sambalpur districts of Odisha were selected and taken up for the study. Purposive and Simple random sampling method has been used by the researcher for selecting the samples. Socio-Economic Status Scale developed by Dr.R.L.Bharadwaj and Test of Study Habits and Attitudes developed by Dr.C.P.Mathur was used for the study. It has been found that, there is low positive relationship between socio economic status and study habits, no mean difference of study habits is found among students belongs to high, average and poor categories of socio economic status of class-VIII students of Adarsha Vidyalaya.