A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC TEMPER AMONG TRIBAL AND NON-TRIBAL ADOLESCENTS OF KASHMIR

The significance of creating scientific temper is plainly established by the way that it is one of our central obligations to create scientific temper and spirit of inquiry by individual resident of India. Article 51 A of our constitution makes it an obligation of each citizen to develop a scientific temper. The present study was undertaken to compare the scientific temper of tribal and non-tribal adolescents of Kashmir. Stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the adolescent students from the different high schools of Anantnag and Kupwara districts of Kashmir. Wani, S. R., and Nadeem, N. A. scientific temper scale was employed to collect data for scientific temper. Independent samples t-test was used to analyse the data. The results were found that the tribal and non-tribal adolescents differ significantly on the measure of scientific temper at 0.01 level of significance. Non-tribal adolescents showed a higher level of scientific temper than tribal students. Further the study revealed that there exist no significant difference between the male and female adolescents on the measure of scientific temper in each group