Effect of Gender, Academic Stream and Non Print Media use on Modernization of Senior Secondary School Students

The present study was undertaken to find out the effect of gender, academic stream and non print media use on modernization of senior secondary school students. The present study has been conducted on a sample of 240 male and female senior secondary school students of Una and Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. Non print media scale developed and standardized by the investigator herself. Comprehensive Modernization Inventory (CMI) by Ahulwalia, S.P and Kalia, A.K., published by psychological corporation, Agra, U.P India have been used as tool and administered on the selected sample. Mean, S.D, T-test and (2X3X2) analysis of variance have been used for analysis of data. The result of the study revealed that currently (i) science stream students are more modernized as compared to arts and commerce stream students (ii) students making more and less use of non print media do not differ significantly on the modernization (iii) significant interaction was found between non print media use and gender (iv) gender, stream and non print media use interact significantly in modernization.