ABSTRACT INTELLIGENCE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR

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 & Singh. {Scale III(CFISIII)} for measuring abstract intelligence & 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 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. INTRODUCTION In the past decades education was considered as the process of imparting information to the young for the specific period in a formal set up. Various social, economic, cultural, political and technological changes over the last few decades now make several changes in the system of education, leading to the emergence of new role expectations. Today, the meaning attributed to education is very vast and complex. It is not restricted to mere instructions of the young but considered as a life-long process of drawing out and developing individual‟s overall personalities. It is related with all round development of the child, which in turn results in the development of the society and also in the development of the nation. All round development of child means healthy growth of the child. The healthy growth of a child is marked not only by development of the brain and nervous system and other obvious aspects of physical maturation but also by development in the linguistic, cognitive, social and relational, psychological and emotional, and moral and ethical domains (Maholmes, 2001). Intelligence is one of the psychological terms used quite frequently in various settings. Answer to the question: Who can be called „Intelligent‟? Is, the one who gets highest Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work