Profile of Girl Students Studying in Higher Agricultural Education

Abstract

Present study was conducted during the academic session 2020-21in the College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur, India taking 139 girl students randomly studying in B.Sc.(Ag.), M.Sc.(Ag.) and Ph. D. programmes. In this investigation, ''Ex-Post-Facto” research design was used. Socio-personal, communicational-situational, economic and psychological variables were independent variables to study the attitude (dependent variable) of girl students. Different empirical measures and structured schedule were used to know the variables of the study. Scale developed by Heatherton and Polivy [1] for assessment of level of confidence and scale adopted by Ajit [2] and further, used by Hallar (1963) were applied for reckoning the occupational aspirations. Results of the study indicate that majority (77.70%) of the respondents was under 22 years having OGPA between 7.00 to 8.00. Leaving 3.60 per cent of illiterate mothers, all students’ parents were literate. Data also reveals that nearly one third (33.81%) of the students belonged to high family income group whereas, 23.74 per cent belonged to low and 42.45 per cent belonged to medium family income group.  Most of them (74.10%) were from OBC, SC/ST categories and nearly two-third of them (63.31%) had medium to very high participation in extra-curricular activities. Majority (64.75%) was from rural background and 54.68% of the respondents used to visit the library either twice or once in a week. More than one third students (35.25%) under study were found using internet at medium level. More than three-fourth (75.54%) of the students’ parents had agriculture, animal husbandry and service as their occupation whereas majority (63.31%) of them was small and marginal farmers. On further analysis, it was seen that 49.64 per cent of the responding students had high level of confidence whereas, majority (79.86%) had medium to high level of occupational aspiration.