Study on the Relationship Between Personality Characteristics and Attitude of Students in Science and Technology

Abstract

The study intends to find out the relationship between profile characteristics and attitude of polytechnic students towards diploma programme. A sample of 240 students were selected from three polytechnics viz., Agriculture, Seed technology and Organic farming using simple random sampling procedure. The study revealed that out of seventeen profile characteristics of polytechnic students, Academic achievement, Education of father, Education of mother, Size of land holding, Caste, Family occupation, Participation in Extracurricular & co - curricular activities, Mass media exposure, Achievement motivation and Self - confidence showed positive significant relationship with attitude. On the other hand left over variables like Gender, Medium of instruction in Xth class, Annual income, Type of family, Rural urban background, Library exposure showed positive non - significant and infrastructure facilities showed negative non - significant relationship with attitude. The multiple linear regression equation with seventeen selected profile characteristics put together contributed 70.60 percent to the total variance in the attitude of polytechnic students towards diploma programme.