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3.1 Method
3.2 Population
3.3 Sampling
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Chapter 3
METHODOLOGY
3.1 METHOD
3.2 POPULATION
(27) government colleges under Manipur University situated in the four (4)
colleges are providing general education and nine (9) colleges are
3.3 SAMPLE
imperative because of the fact that in most of the colleges the non-
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availability of the students due to very thin enrolment was the base
sampling was adopted in which any available Meitei student was selected
Table 3.1
Distribution of Meitei students in the general and professional
education
developed by Upinder Dhar and Manisha Jain and the second questionnaire
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follows:
This scale was developed by Upinder Dhar and Manisha Jain. The
disagree and strongly disagree. The scale has two parts-Form A and Form
(16) items which is a total of thirty- three (33) items (Appendix 2). Form A
person is having. One may be oriented more towards a particular type, but
may have some characteristics of other type too. As for the reliability of the
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scale, the reliability coefficient of Form A has been found to be .54 and
coincidently, for Form B also it has been found to be .54. The scale has
high content validity, besides face validity. The validity for both the forms
which has been separately measured has been found to be .73 (Dhar &
Jain, 2001). Regarding the administration of the scale, the scale is self-
no time limit for completing the scale, most respondents, however, take
about 10 minutes to complete both the forms. The respondents are required
to answer all the questions and there are no right or wrong answer to the
statement is scored 5 for strongly agree, 4 for agree, 3 for uncertain, 2 for
disagree and 1 for strongly disagree. Sum of the scores of Form A and
below:
Table 3.2(a)
Form A Form B
Normal range 46 – 60 46 – 58
occasions.
occasions.
personality.
items each, taken from long form of the scales is there. Either of the two
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regards the reliability of the short scale it was found to be .80 for the
Neuroticism scale and .72 for the Extraversion scale. The correlations
between the long and the short M.P.I. scales are .86 and .87 respectively
for N and E. The instructions for filling up the form can be read aloud to
that all questions have been answered; where answers are missing subjects
should be recorded on the front page. If this number exceeds 10, results are
of very doubtful value; the subject may be retested, and part of the
The instructions to use the key are given on the key itself. For the short
scale, the scores on page 1 are added. It has been made sure that the key
and the questionnaire which is being scored are properly aligned; the
Table 3.2(b)
1 30 21
2 34 25
3 37 29
4 40 33
5 43 37
6 46 41
7 50 45
8 53 49
9 56 53
10 59 57
11 63 61
12 66 65
One can easily enter the raw score as obtained directly from the test
booklet on the left side of the table. The standard score value equivalent to
that raw score will be found to the right in that row of the table relating to
N and E dimensions.
standard score in the range 40-60 is designated ‘equal to the average (A)’;
a standard score in the range 30-39, 61-70 is ‘equal to deviated (D)’, and a
students had been categorized accordingly under the three categories i.e.,
In the data collection process, the researcher had first of all, sorted
out both the professional and general colleges situated in the four valley
visiting the colleges or in some cases through a secondary source about the
Accordingly, the target colleges were selected. The researcher then, made a
researcher had targeted for her data collection. On the day of the data
collection, the researcher approached the head of the institution first and
asked for the permission to meet the students. Permission being granted, as
per the requirements of the study, the researcher had approached only the
Meitei students and firstly, the purpose of the visit had been explained
properly to them and asked whether they had any problems in filling up the
questionnaire. The subjects were assured that their responses would be kept
confidential and whatever results come out from their responses would be
After this, with their consent and full cooperation, the subjects were asked
any open space in the campus. The two set of questionnaires-ABBPS and
MPI were distributed to the subjects, and the subjects were told to fill up
the MPI first, and secondly, the ABBPS. After making sure that the
subjects were seated comfortably, the instructions printed on the scale were
read aloud to them, or the subjects were told to read silently by themselves.
Prior to making responses to the statements, the students were told to fill
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up the personal information sheet printed on the front page. The researcher
had been very careful in not to amplify or alert the students in any way. As
the scale can be self –administered, the subjects had been told to make the
unanswered. The subjects were told that there is no right or wrong answer
to the statements, and a genuine response was expected from them. There
is no time limit for completing the questionnaires, but the subjects were
told that 15 minutes time is enough for completing both the questionnaires.
completion, care had been taken to check that all questions had been
answered; and where answers were missing subjects were made to draw
questionnaires were scrutinized for the number of “?” responses and were
very doubtful value, the subjects were retested and the part of the
subject again not to commit the mistake any further. The subjects were
thanked for their cooperation and patience. Some of the subjects were so
eager to know their personality types that they requested the researcher to
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inform them the result of the test. The researcher having finished collecting
the data, thanked the head of the institution for his/her cooperation.
The data were analysed with the help of SPSS and computed
interpret the data. In writing the thesis, both the ethnographic past and
REFERENCES
Dhar, Upinder, and Jain, Manisha. (2001). Manual for Type A/B
Agency.
London: Author.