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Alienation: A Symptomatic Reaction of Educated Unemployed Youth in India
Author(s) -
Singh Lai Bahadur,
Singh Arun Kumar,
Rani Asha
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/002075996401124
Subject(s) - alienation , feeling , psychology , scale (ratio) , vulnerability (computing) , hindi , social psychology , demographic economics , political science , geography , economics , linguistics , philosophy , cartography , computer security , computer science , law
A 21‐item 4‐point Alienation Scale (Kureshi & Dutt, 1979) in Hindi was administered to a randomly selected group of 400 educated youth equally divided into: (1) technically educated unemployed, (2) non‐technically educated unemployed, (3) technically educated employed, and (4) non‐technically educated employed. This scale aimed to ascertain in these subjects comparative degrees of feeling of alienation and its dimensions. Results of statistical comparison revealed that the technically and the non‐technically educated unemployed youth, as compared to their employed counterparts, evinced relatively a greater vulnerability to the feeling of alienation and its dimensions, though the latter were also moderately susceptible in this regard. Further, it was found that the technically educated unemployed youth were more prone to alienation and its dimensions and the non‐technically educated employed youth were the least affected, with the non‐technically educated unemployed and the technically educated employed youth in second and third places respectively. The study also indicated a close association between different dimensions of alienation, both with each other and with the total scale scores.