Page No.323-327
R.K. Adsul and Vikas Kamble
Smt. K.W. Mahavidyalaya, Sangli.
The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of gender, economic
background and caste differences on achievement motivation possessed by
college students on the basis of societal transformation .An exploratory method
of research was employed by adopting 2X3X4 factorial design. The study was
based on one hundred and ninety two under graduate students of various colleges
from Sangli city of Maharashtra, was selected by random sampling procedure.
As per research plan 48 subjects from each caste group i.e. forward castes,
other backward castes, Scheduled castes and Nomadic tribes were selected
on the basis of male – female ratio was 1:1 , and three levels of economic
background of family. Achievement Motivation Test (ACMT) developed by Bhargave
was used to collect the data from the sample. ‘t’ test, Duncan’s Multiple Range
test and three way ANOVA were calculated for deriving the results. The results
show that there is a significant difference between scheduled caste and Nomadic
tribes, scheduled caste and other backward caste students and between male
and female students. Forward caste and scheduled caste group students having
a high achievement motivation while other backward and nomadic tribes group
students having an average level achievement motivation. As well as male
students having a high achievement motivation while female students having a
below average level of achievement motivation. The most important finding is
that the computed F ratio of interaction was found to be not significant which
indicates that caste, gender and economic background of family does not jointly
affect on achievement motivation of college students