A Comparative Analysis of Parental Involvement in Home-Based Moral Education: Effects on Early Childhood Social and Emotional Competence

Moral education is gaining significant importance nowadays and parents play an important role in this context. However, lack of awareness about effective moral education strategy and resistance caused by different reasons is observed as a barrier for parental-involvement in moral education. Effective research questions and objectives drawn to conduct research on this issue. Different hypotheses have also been developed to elaborately discuss the relationships between these variables. The investigation further defines the factors taken for this study that relates to the variables to deliver the importance of the investigation. The research work is done through a mixed-method research design. It is accomplished by analysing 6 relevant articles as well as a survey conducted with 424 parents of children having age below 6 years. Tools like IBM SPSS are used to analyse the survey data. The result obtained from the survey method shows that relationships between the independent and dependent variables are strong, except the relationship that exists between the feedback of parents as well as social and emotional competence. However, the mediating role of motivation is supported through the outcome of the study. The idea obtained through the analysis of secondary qualitative data helps in identifying the influence of parental style and factors like observational learning or attention in terms of improving the quality of social and emotional competence among learners belonging to their early childhood. It is recommended at the end of the study, future research on parental involvement can be done by considering more inclusive or diverse cultural setting to gain critical outcome.