This report is based on a study conducted on 44 subjects who were applicants for industrial units. The technical committee recommended selection of the applicants on the basis of their entrepreneural potential. A 2 x 2 analysis of variance design emerged on the basis of the committee's judgement (selection or rejection) of each applicant and age of the applicants. Achievement values (vAch) and locus of control of subjects were measured. The results revealed that the applicants selected by the committee showed significantly greater amount of vAch and more internality on the scale of locus of control. The subjects above 35 years in age were found to be lower in vAch combined with less internality than those who were below 35 years of age. Interaction effects did not reach significance for any of these variables. Correlation coefficients of the measures further supported the above results. The implications of these findings are shown in terms of entrepreneural selection and development.
The present research is a continuation of other recent studies (Sinha, Jain and Pandey, 1980;Pandey, Kakkar, and Bohra, 1982) related to attributions of the causes of poverty. In that study income and ownership of means of production were considered major determinants of an individual's perspective with respect to attribution processes. The role of perspective in attribution processes has also been emphasized by several others (Mannheim, 1960;Kelley, 1973).This study originated from our conviction that the nature of political affiliation and political ideology greatly determine perspectives affecting perception of social reality. We have observed that different political parties of the right and left have evolved their own perspectives of viewing poverty in India, a predominant and pervasive aspect of social reality. The causes of poverty or the removal of poverty have been the main-spring of many political campaigns. Political parties differ in their ideology with leftist advocating more radical approaches than rightist. It can therefore, be expected that individuals having different political affiliations and ideological beliefs ought to vary in their perception of the poverty phenomena (Rayan, 1972).The argument that ideology affects knowledge and the perception of causes has been a favourite concern of epistomologists and attribution theorists (Heider, 1958;Jones and Davis, 1965;Kelley, 1972Kelley, , 1973. We may characterize ideology as a manner of thinking, a system of values, assumptions and beliefs which affect the perception of social reality. Thus, due to the ideological variations emerging from varied political affiliations, individuals may differ in attribution of causes to poverty. Especially, in this study we have made an attempt to explore how political
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