Correlation of Anganwadi Workers of Integrated Child Development Scheme

The present study was conducted in forty villages of four taluka of Parbhani district of Marathwada region of Maharashtra State on 80 anganwadi workers with an object to study the personal, social and economical characteristics of anganwadi workers and to examine the relationship between the personal, social and economical characteristics of anganwadi workers and their communication behaviour. The data were collected by personally interviewing the anganwadi workers and analyzed statically. The result of study depicted that maximum respondents expressed in middle age group, most of the respondents were educated up to secondary school level, fifty per cent of the respondents were high cast, Majority anganwadi workers were married, while three fourth respondents were from joint family and 70 per cent respondents were from medium family income group. Further it was revealed that majority of the respondents had service experience between 6 to 10 years, 93.75 per cent respondents received both basic and revised trainings. Most of the respondents had favourable attitude towards ICDS. While 71.25 per cent of the respondent were moderately satisfied with their job and medium level of knowledge about their job components. Education, service experience, training received, job satisfaction, and knowledge about job components had positive and significant relationship with communication behaviour of anganwadi workers.