National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Role perception is the way in which individual perceive and interpret their roles which they are supposed to perform. In rural India the elected women members supposed to play very important role for the overall development and specially for women and children welfare. Many programmes have been implemented by the state and central governments for women and child welfare. The successful implementation of these programmes largely depends on the perception and performance of the roles by the elected women in Gram Panchyaths. To measure their role perception, a scale was developed to measure the “Role perception of women members of Gram Panchayat”. The Likert‟s summated rating scale was followed in the construction of scale. Based on the review of literature and discussion with the experts, 49 items were enlisted. The items were sent to 150 experts/scientists from different State Agricultural Universities (SAU’s), resource persons of Panchayat and Panchayat Development Officers. The judges were requested to indicate their response as “most relevant”, “relevant” and “not relevant” for appropriateness of each item for inclusion in the scale to measure a particular component of role perception. A total of 75responses were received from the judges. The items having relevancy weightage of more than or equivalent to 0.75 were selected. Finally, 33 items were retained. A schedule consisting of 33 statements was prepared and it was used to interview 30 women members of Gram Panchayat from a non-sample area. Finally a total of 28 items were selected for the study based on. t‟ values (> 2.18) resulted from the item analysis and were included in the final scale. The reliability co-efficient of the statements of four components of role perception of women members of Gram Panchayat was 0.80, which was found significant at 0.01 level of probability. Hence, the scale developed was found to be reliable and valid. It can be used to measure the role perception of women members of Gram Panchayat by the other researchers.
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