Dimensions of friendship among tribals and non tribals: A comparative study

Pages: 754-756
Uday Shankar and Saba Farheen (Department of Psychology, Patna University, Patna, Bihar)

The present research was proposed to study the different dimensions of friendship in Tribals and non Tribals. The subjects were college students belonging to tribal and non tribal community. They were selected from Patna university (Bihar), Neelamber Peetamber University and Sidhu kanhu university (Jharkhand). Dimensions of friendship scale(DFS) by Chandana and Chadha has been used in this study. There were three groups in the study- Group A (tribals having tribal friends), Group B(non tribals having non tribal friends) and Group C(tribals having non tribal friends).Mean, SD and t-ratio have been computed for comparative study of the three groups with each other on eight dimensions. Results have shown that all the three groups are significantly differ with each other on the different dimensions of friendship.