Comparative study of leadership qualities between professional and non-professional students

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to find out the leadership qulities between collage level professional and non-professional students, physical education students were taken as professionals and MA, education and M.sc chemistry students were taken as non-professionals.Total 240 subjects where taken for study professional 120 and 120, Non-professional of Kashmir University and affilated collages’ (Kashmir division) the age of the subjects ranging from 22 to 28 years were selected as the subjects. The subjects were selected by using simple random simpling method it was hypothsized that there would be significant difference of qulities between professional and non-professional students, For collection of the data Leadership Questionnaire constructed by (Dr. Poorva jain and Ms. Pratibha Dwivedi) having 36 open ended questions, among these five questiones where selected to collected the data question papers were given to the students.responses were obtain numerical in the 5 point scale such as 5,represents strongely agree, 4, agree, 3, undecided, 2, disagree and 1, totally disagree. The collected data were analyzed statistically through chi-square or (χ2) test and the level of significance were observed at 0.05 level of confidance and df, 9.49. On the basis of statistical findings it was concluded that the percentage of responses are found difference between the professional and non-professional students’ towards leadership qualities, like; stay firm on my decision, have lot of patience, beliieves in hard work, believes in doing work systematically, not rigid in my act, have the ability to develop confidence in my team members.etc. as the calculated Chi-square (χ2) values are greater than the tabulated values on.05 level of confidence. It is also indicated that professional students have positively higher leadership qualities in comparison to non-professional students.