DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF TRIBAL FARMWOMEN TOWARDS DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

Abstract

Due to non-availability of a proper scale to measure tribal farmwomen’s attitude towards different development programmes, it was thought necessary to construct a scale for the purpose. Keeping this in view, an attempt has been made to develop a scale for measuring the attitude of tribal farmwomen towards different development programmes. Among the techniques available for the development of scale, technique chosen to develop attitude scale was ‘Scale Product Method’ which combines the Thurstion’s technique of equal appearing interval scale for selection of the items and Likert’s techniques of summated rating for ascertaining the response on the scale as proposed by Eysenck and Crown (1949).