A STUDY OF PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT AS RELATED TO RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

The study was conducted to determine the relationship between parental encouragement 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. Parental encouragement scale by Kusum Agrawal & Risk Taking Questionnaire (RTQ) by V.N.Sinha & 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 female students were significantly differ in parental encouragement than the male students studying at graduate level while the male and female students studying in professional and non professional courses at graduate level does not differ in parental encouragement.