A study of locus of control, religion and socio-economic status on college girls

Pages: 391-393
Sudhir Padghan (Department of Psychology, Dnyanopasak College, Parbhani, Maharashtra)

The concern of present research was to investigate the effect of religious and socio economic status on college girls students’ personality criteria namely locus of control. The sample was confined to the colleges of Parbhani District of Maharashtra. The stratified randomize sample taken into consideration for the study was consisted of 120 college going girls belonging to the age group of 17 to 23 years, out of which 60 belongs to Hindu community and 60 belongs to Muslim community as per objective. Both the groups were equally subdivided into two group’s i.e. low and high SES students. The data were collected by using test namely; Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale. To analyze the data the present investigation deals with 2 x 2 factorial design and data was analyzed using 2 Way ANOVA. Results revealed that both religious and socio economic status were significant on locus of control of college going girls.