Correlates of Selected Independent Variables and Attitude of Rural Women towards Homestead Technologies of Rajendra Agricultural University (RAU) Bihar

Attitude is the degree of favourable or unfavourable feelings towards a psychological object. In the present context, it shows the degree of positive or negative attitude rural women of Bihar have towards the selected homestead technologies of RAU. The type of attitude they have is influenced by many socio-personal, economic, communicational, psychological, situational variables. Hence an attempt was made to find out the factors which affect knowledge level of rural women about homestead technologies of RAU. The study was conducted on 225 rural women who were exposed to the nine selected homestead technologies from three districts of Bihar viz. Samastipur, Muzaffarpur and Vaishali. The independent variables education, family support, information source utilization, scientific orientation, innovativeness, perceived attributes of homestead technologies and input availability were positively and significantly associated with attitude of the respondents towards homestead technologies of RAU.The variables information source utilization, scientific orientation and input availability were positively and significantly contributing to attitude of rural women towards homestead technologies of RAU.