A scale to measure the self-confidence of rural youth to work in farming

At present antimicrobial resistance appears as a global threat to animal as well as human populations. It affects the health of animals and humans as well as acts as an economic burden to animal owners due to high treatment costs and production failure. This scenario can be changed by altering the attitude of key stakeholders - veterinary professionals towards antimicrobial resistance and its stewardship programme. Thus it is essential to study the attitude of veterinary professionals towards antimicrobial resistance. A scale has been constructed to measure the attitude of veterinary professionals towards antimicrobial resistance by using Scale Product Method, which combines Thurston’s equal appearing technique for items selection and Likert’s technique of summated rating. The process began with identifying the aspects, reviewing literature and collecting item statements, followed by its analysis and checking of reliability and content validity for consistency and accuracy of the result. A total of 25 statements were selected, out of which 20 statements were finally included in the scale to measure the attitude of veterinary professionals towards antimicrobial resistance. The scale contains twenty statements, of which fourteen are positive, and six are negative. The constructed scale was found to be highly reliable and valid.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scale to Measure the Attitude of Veterinary Professionals Towards Antimicrobial Resistance

Shah,

Patel,

Jadav

2023

“…Among the techniques available, researcher had selected. 'Scale product method' which combines the Turnstone's technique of equal appearing interval scale (1928) for selection of items and Likert's technique of summated rating (1932) for ascertaining the response on the scale as proposed by Eysenck and Crown (1949) and also as followed by Patel et al (2022).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scale to Measure the Attitude of Agro-Input Dealers Towards Their Occupation

Patel,

Thorat,

Patel

2023

In India, agro-input dealers play a crucial indirect role in enhancing farm productivity and income. Due to their locational advantage and easy accessibility, they serve as important sources of agricultural information, offering guidance on technologies, recommendations, and input supply, contributing to farmers’ decision-making processes. This study was conducted to develop a valid and reliable statements to be used for measuring attitude of agro-input dealers towards their occupation. The scale-product method is used to develop the scale. This method is a combination of Likert and Thurston technique. 28 statements were assessed by 50 judges on a 5 point continuum. Then, after comparing S and Q value 16 statements were selected to form a scale to measure attitude towards occupation. The reliability coefficient (r) was determined to be 0.86, indicating reliability, using the split-half method. A questionnaire- based proportionate random sampling survey was conducted on 120 agro-input dealers in Anand district of Gujarat state. The statistical measures, such as SPSS and Microsoft excel were used and nearly two-third (67.50 per cent) of the agro-input dealers had favourable attitude towards their occupation.

“…Thus, the technique chosen to construct the attitude scale was of "Scale Product Method" which is combination of the Thurstone's technique of equal appearing interval scale for selection of the items and Likert's technique of summated rating for ascertaining the response on the scale as proposed by Eysenck and Crown (1949). The methodology is also followed by Vekariya et al (2022), Patel et al (2022), Yeragorla et al (2021) andVinaya et al (2018).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scale to Measure Attitude of Farmers Towards Agricultural Diversification

Rathod,

Kalsariya,

Pokar

2023

Attitude is defined as the degree of favourable or unfavourable feeling of the farmers towards agricultural diversification. It is the accepted fact that an attitude of an individual plays an important role in determining ones behaviour. Keeping this in view a standardized scale has been developed to measure the attitude of farmers towards agricultural diversification. A summated (Likert) rating scale was been developed. The process started with identifying the dimension, collection of items followed by, relevancy and item analysis and checking the reliability and validity for precision and consistency of the results. A total of fifty-five statements were framed in which finally nineteen statements were finally retained for measuring attitude of farmers towards agricultural diversification. The scale contains total nineteen statements, out of which fourteen statements are positive and five statements are negative. The scale developed was found highly reliable and valid.