A study the Personality and achievement Motivation of among High School Students of Jalgaon District

Rani Tripathi Rani Tripathi

doi:10.25215/0201.066

Abstract

This paper aims to study the achievement motivation and personality of high school students in relation to the type of urban and rural area. The study was conducted on 120 students (60 boys 60 girls) studying in high schools selected purposively from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra state. Intact classes of VIII to X were taken from the four schools. For the collection of necessary information investigator used Personality Inventory (M.P.I.) by Jalota, S.S. and Kapoor, S.D. (1975) (Hindi Version). And Achievement Motivation Test by Gopal Rao (1974). To find the significance of difference between the various groups ‘t’ test was applied. Results indicated that rural and urban area high school students differ significantly on Personality but gender wise and area wise students do not differ significantly on achievement motivation.

Highlights

High school students utilized most of their time in school environment
Achievement motivation concept developed by social psychologist McClelland to denote the strong urge felt by an individual or society for achievement in various aspects of life that satisfies the need of self-esteem
The findings of the study revealed that academic climate have a strong and significant effect on personality of high school students

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Introduction

High school students utilized most of their time in school environment. This is important stage of personality development of student‟s life as well as its motivational for achievement. Between this stage students are get efforts to develop their area of personality and achievement. Every School, High school and colleges try to provide maximum educational and personality related skills to their students but some student not shown interested for grab this opportunity, and not fulfill the expectations of their parents and educational institutes. Achievement motivation concept developed by social psychologist McClelland to denote the strong urge felt by an individual or society for achievement in various aspects of life that satisfies the need of self-esteem. The achievement motive is the deciding factor in attaining success in different fields

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