Page No: 310-314
Ashok Kumar Ojha and Ritu Mishra
Tata Motors Finance Ltd. T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpu
The research was planned to investigate the independent as well as interactional
effects of age and deprivation on altruism. For this, a 3 × 3 bivariate classifi cation of
the sample was made. The ages of the participants was divided into young (over 20 –
40 years), middle (over 40 – 60 years) and old (over 60 – 80 years). Deprivation was
categorized on the basis of the scores of the subjects on Deprivation Scale into three–
high deprived (HD), medium deprived (MD) and low deprived (LD), and accordingly in
each of nine subgroups 40 male urban employees (working/retired) of government or
semi government organizations were selected. All the selected subjects were individually
interviewed with Altruism Scale. A bivariate analysis of the data revealed that as age and
deprivation increase altruism also increases. However, interaction of age X deprivation
does not make any signifi cant difference in altruism