Socio-Economic Factors of Different Classes of People Related to Attitude towards National Development

Abstract

A sample survey on three different socio-economic factors upon 247 peoples was designed to investigate whether there were any significant differences in Attitude towards, National Development on various socio­economic groups of people. A 58 item likert type scale, Attitude Scale for National Development (ASND) developed by Rafiq Ahmed (I 997) was used to collect data and to measure their Attitude towards, National Development. The obtained data were analyzed by one-way analysis, of variance (ANOVA) and t-test. The analysis provided that there were significant differences in Attitude towards National Development between different groups of people and all they were showing negative attitude within each of three socio-economic factors. For Profession, Students and Service Holders groups shown more negative attitude than other three groups Farmers, Laborers and Businessman though the laborers’ group were showing most average score. For education, more educated groups shown more negative attitude. Similar results also observed for Income groups of people, that is, more income groups of people shown more negative attitude.