Study of Sex Differences and Interacting effects Sex and Tribal nontribal origin on ego virtues

Abstract

Main objective of the research paper is as follows: To study sex differences in ego virtues. .To study interacting effects of sex and tribal non-tribal origin on each ego virtue. The sample of the present study was of college going 100 males and 100 females of tribal region (Preferably gond tribe) Their age range was from 18 yrs to 23 yrs they were, under graduate and post graduate students . Similarly 100 male sand 100 females of non -tribal region were chosen having the same age group and same educational qualification .Ego virtues Inventory developed by Dr R D Helode has been used. It is based upon the Erikson’s personality theory reflecting psychosocial balance, consisted of 80 items, ten items for measuring each virtue, there are in all 8 virtues to be measured namely hope , will, purpose, competence, fidelity, care and wisdom, sex wise t values were found significant for hope will purpose, competence ,fidelity, care and wisdom and insignificant for love, Two way anova was computed for ego virtue will and the F rario was found insignificant at both the levels for culture and significant for sex at .05 level and interaction effect was found insignificant at both the levels culture wise t values insignificant at both levels except for virtue ,competence significant at both levels and for care and wisdom significant at .05 levels For studying interacting effects of sex and culture (tribal non-tribal ) origin on each ego virtue two there were two subgroups of subjects one culture wise and another sex wise for hence 2x2 anova has been found appropriate for this data , for testing homogeneity of variance levene’s test was used , F ratio insignificant for culture sex and for interaction of sex and culture(HOPE). Two way anova was computed for ego virtue (WILL )and the f rario was found insignificant at both the levels for culture and significant for sex at .05 level and interaction effect was found insignificant at both the levels shown in the table, Two way anova was computed for ego virtue (PURPOSE) F ratio was found insignificant at culture ,sex .and interaction effect was found significant. for virtue (COMPETENCE) the F ratio was found significant for culture and sex at both the levels and interaction effect was insignificant at both the levels, F ratio (FOR FIDELITY) was found significant for culture at both the levels ,for sex significant at .05 level and interaction effect was found significant at both the levels. (FOR LOVE) the F ratio was found insignificant for culture sex at both the levels and the interaction effect was also found insignificant, F ratio has been found significant for culture and sex in CARE and WISDOM.