A Comparative Study of Achievement Motivation Among Socially Disadvantaged Adolescent Students in Kashmir

The present study was undertaken to compare the level of achievement motivation between Schedule Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) secondary school adolescents of District Budgam. With the help of simple random sampling technique, 160 students were selected, 80 ST and 80 OBC. Data was collected by applying Achievement Motivation Scale developed by Pratibha Deo and Asha Mohan (2018). After analysis by using percentage, Mean, SD and t-test, results indicated that, 68.75% of socially disadvantaged adolescent students possess average motivation, 11.25% students possess above average motivation, 5.0% students are having high achievement motivation, 2.50% students are highly motivated. On the other hand, 8.75% of students fall in below average achievement motivation, 2.50% students in low motivation and 1.25% students fall in lowest motivation group.  Besides, significant difference was found in the achievement motivation of ST and OBC students as OBC students are having higher achievement motivation as compared to ST students.