Effectiveness of token economy on behavioral problem among mentally challenged children in a selected special school, Salem

This study was undertaken to evaluate the Effectiveness of Token Economy on Behavioural Problem among Mentally Challenged Children in a Selected Special School, Salem. The study reveals that during pre-test, majority of the samplesi.e.18 (48.65%) had severe behavioral problem, 12(32.43%) had moderate behavioral problem and remaining 7(18.92%) had mild behavioral problem. During post-test the most of the samplesi.e. 15(40.54%) had moderate behavioral problem, 13(35.14%) had severe behavioral problem and remaining 9(24.32%) had mild behavioral problem. The mean and standard deviation during pre-test was 18.54± 5.99 and the mean and standard deviation during post-test was 15.49±5.88, the paired ‘t’ test value was 2.93 at p <0.05. This indicates that the token economy was very effective in reducing the behavioral problem among mentally challenged children. Hence the research hypothesis H₁ was retained. There was no significant association found between the pre test scores on behavioral problem among samples and with their selected baseline variables at p&le;0.05 level. Hence hypothesis H₂ is rejected. This study concluded that the Token Economy was effective in reducing the Behavioral Problem among Mentally Challenged Children.