Indian Journal of Extension Education

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 55
  • Issue: 3

Nutritional Health Multidimensional Locus of Control (HMLC) Instrument for Farming Community: Confirmatory factor analysis

  • Author:
  • Satyapriya1, Premlata Singh2, Sitaram Bishnoi3, Sunita Singh4, K. N. Singh5, Mrinmoy Ray6, Shashi Dahiya7, Shantanu Kumar Dubey8, Atar Singh9, Prasannajit Mishra10, Biswaranjan Pattanaik11, Ravi Shankar12, Rubeka13, Jaya Pandey14, Vaibhav Rai15, Swatantra Pratap Singh16, Subrat Kumar Mahapatra17
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 25 to 29

1Principal Scientist, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

2Principal Scientist & Head, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

3Scientist, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

4Principal Scientist, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

5Principal Scientist & Head, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi

6Scientist, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi

7Sr. Scientist, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi

8Principal Scientist, ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur

9Director, ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur

10Joint Director Extension, OUAT, Bhubaneswar

11Sr. Scientist & Head, KVK, Jagatsinghpur

12SRF, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

13SRF, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi

14SRF, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi

15SRF, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi

16SRF, ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur

17SRF, OUAT, Bhubaneswar

Online published on 29 February, 2020.

Abstract

India is self-sufficient country in terms of food production. However, it still suffers from nutritional maladies. A prime aspect to understand the issues is to see how farmer's behavior is affected by their locus of control. Nutritional Health Multidimensional Locus of Control has been derived from the premise of Multidimensional health locus of control and locus of control per se. This can be used as an instrument to know the locus and associated factors that can affect the nutritional behavior change especially in context of appropriate agri-nutri interventions. The study was conducted in Odisha and Uttar Pradesh (nutritionally vulnerable areas). The sample size was 100 farmers selected by simple random sampling technique. Confirmatory factor analysis was employed to find the best among A, B and C forms for farmers. Form Awith 18 statements was found to be statistically the best one.

Keywords

Nutritional Health Multidimensional Locus of Control, farmers