Attitude of College Going Youth towards Research in Tamilnadu

The present study aims to know the attitude of youth towards research in Thiruvannamalai district of Tamilnadu. The investigators adopted normative survey as a research method and adopted simple random sampling technique to draw 300 samples from various colleges. The findings of the study reveal that youth are having favourable attitude towards research and the research interest of urban area youth is better than the rural area youth.


INTRODUCTION
Research in India is not up to the mark of global demands in many fields. The Gross enrollment ratio of youth in higher education is 17.9% in which only 2.1 percent of them only enroll themselves in research programmes. The interest of youth should be channelized towards the research activities. It could be achieved in the very beginning of formal education. The strength of our nation depends on the teacher's ability to rear well-educated, responsible, well-adjusted youth who will step forward when the adult generation passes on to retirement. The teachers should motivate the youth to participate in research or project works in school level itself. The responsibility of teachers and institutions is to see that the youth should be strong enough to participate in research activities. This could be achieved by setting up the quality research mind among the youth.
The research enrollment in India is very less than the other developing countries and developed countries. Only very few of youth enroll in research programmes, it may be due to the lack of research aptitude, social pressure to choose a career at earlier, lack of awareness about research etc. Therefore, the investigators interested to know the attitude level of the college going youth towards research. The findings of the study will yield fruitful result on the field of higher level educational research. So, the present study has high need and importance.

1.
To find out the college going youth' attitude towards research in Tiruvannamalai district.

2.
To find out the significant mean difference between male and female youth with respect to attitude towards research.

3.
To find out the significant mean difference between rural and urban area youth with respect to attitude towards research.

4.
To find out the significant mean difference between Tamil and English medium youth with respect to attitude towards research.

5.
To find out the significant mean difference between nuclear and joint family youth with respect to attitude towards research.

HYPOTHESES
The investigators of the present study framed the following hypotheses based on the objectives stated earlier 1. The college going youth' attitude towards research in Tiruvannamalai district may be favorable. 2. There is no significant mean difference between male and female youth with respect to attitude towards research. 3. There is no significant mean difference between rural and urban area youth with respect to attitude towards research. 4. There is no significant mean difference between Tamil and English medium youth with respect to attitude towards research. 5. To find out the significant mean difference between nuclear and joint family youth with respect to attitude towards research. 6.

METHOD OF STUDY
In this present study, the investigators applied normative survey as a method. The normative survey method studies, describes and interprets what exists at present.

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
In this present investigation the following Statistical techniques were used.

i) Measures of central tendency (mean) ii)
Measures of variability (standard deviation) Differential Analysis

iii)
Independent sample ‗t' test The present investigation is conducted in arts and science colleges in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu. For this study, as many as many as nine colleges were selected for data collection.

VARIABLES OF THE STUDY
Variables are the conditions or characteristics that the researcher manipulates, controls or observes. Different variables selected by the investigators given the following sub-headings.

Main variable
The dependent variables are the conditions or characteristics that appear, disappear, or change as the researcher introduces, removes, or change independent variables. For the present study, Attitude towards research was taken as a main variable.

Demographic variables
The investigators of the present study utilized the following demographic variables, they are;

SAMPLE OF THE STUDY
The present study consists of 300 youth studying in various colleges in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu. The samples were selected by using simple random sampling technique.

TOOL USED
The data are necessary for carrying out research investigation if must be collected with the special instrument or devices. The successful outcome research is mainly depends upon the proper selection of the research tool. So the investigators used the attitude towards Research Scale, which was constructed and standardized by Suresh Kumar, M. [2013]

DESCRIPTION OF ATTITUDE SCALE
This scale has 29 statements, each statement in this attitude scale was set against five alternative responses, they are Strongly Agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree and Strongly Disagree. Some of the statements in this scale worded in positively and the remaining of them worded in negatively. Out of 29 statements in the scale 19 of them are positively worded and the remaining 10 of them worded negatively. A score of five is given to strongly agree, four for Agree, three for undecided, two for disagree and one for strongly disagree responses in positively worded statements but the scoring is reverse for negatively worded. The maximum score for this attitude scale is 145 and the minimum score is 29.

List of positive and negative statements
Positive (

RELIABILITY:
Reliability refers to the consistency with which a test measures, whatever it measures. The concept of reliability suggests both stability and consistency of measurement. The investigators calculated the reliability analysis and given below.

RELIABILITY CO-EFFICIENTS
Correlation between forms 0.712 Equal-length Spearman-Brown 0.701 Guttmann Split-half 0.791 Unequal-length Spearman-Brown 0.719 VALIDITY: The Attitude towards research scale was given to the experts in order to find out its content validity. The experts agreed that the items in the scale provided adequate coverage of the concept i.e. attitude towards research.

PERCENTILE NORM:
Norms have been worked out for this scale.

Score Range
Norm 98 and below Unfavourable Attitude towards research above 98 Favourable Attitude towards research

ADMINISTRATION
To collect data for the present study, the investigators administered the questionnaire individually with prior permission from the Heads of colleges in Tiruvannamalai district. The investigators given brief introduction about their research also provided adequate guidance to the

Attitude of College Going Youth towards Research in Tamilnadu
© The International Journal of Indian Psychology | 74 college going youth. Whenever they face problem the researcher clarified immediately. In this manner, the investigators collected all the research tools from the selected sample.

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
One of the important objectives of the present investigation is to study the attitude towards research of college going youth. For that, the investigators used a scale which was constructed by M. Suresh Kumar [2013]. The maximum score for this scale is 145 and a minimum score is 29. Hence, one secures a score above 98 indicates favourable attitude towards research and a score below 98 indicates unfavourable attitude towards research. The computed values of entire sample and its sub-samples are given in the

IMPORTANT FINDINGS
The hypotheses formulated at the beginning of the study have been examined in the light of the data gathered. The following are the main findings of the present investigation.
1. The college going youth are having favourable attitude towards research and irrespective of sub samples the college going youth have favoruable attitude towards research. 2. The male and female youth do not differ significantly in their attitude towards research. 3. The rural and urban area youth do not differ significantly in their attitude towards research. The attitude score of urban area youth is higher than the rural area youth. 4. The Tamil and English medium youth do not differ significantly in their attitude towards research. 5. The Nuclear and joint family youth do not differ significantly in their attitude towards research.