COOPERATION AND COMPETITION: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON CHILDREN IN PESHAWAR CITY

The present study was designed to explore the perfo rmance of children in competitive and cooperative c ondition. The sample was randomly selected from different schools of Peshawar city. They were 80 children who were selected randomly with an age range of 8-10 years. The duration of the experimental work was two months i.e. January 1 st to March 1 st 2007. The task of 650 arithmetic problems was assi gned to the subjects to be solved. Results indicate that children performed better in Competit ive condition when compared with Unmotivated (Control) condition (t= 19.515, P**<.01). The scores of child ren are high in Cooperative condition than Unmotiva ted (control) condition (t= 12.457, P**<.01). There is significan t difference in the performance of children in Coop erative condition when compared with Competitive Condition (t=6.596, P**<.05).

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