Open AccessABSTRACT INTELLIGENCE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR
Author(s) -
Sunita Arya,
Parmod Kumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
scholarly research journal for interdisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2319-4766
pISSN - 2278-8808
DOI - 10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10598
Subject(s) - psychology , medical education , test (biology) , graduate students , pharmacy , scale (ratio) , mathematics education , medicine , pedagogy , family medicine , biology , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics
The study was conducted to determine the relationship between abstract intelligence of graduate students in relation to their risk taking behaviour. The participants were 600 degree college students of Haryana state studying in different streams viz. Art, Science, Commerce, Pharmacy and Education. Cattell and Cattell Culture Fair (Free) intelligence Scale by Kapoor, Rao and Singh. {Scale III(CFIS-III)} for measuring abstract intelligence and Risk Taking Questionnaire (RTQ) by V.N.Sinha and P.N.Arora were used for the study. Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘z’ test were used for compare the values among different groups. The result of the study shows that the male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying at graduate level while the male and female students studying in professional courses at graduate level does not differ in abstract intelligence whereas male male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying in non professional courses at graduate level