Scale to measure working self-confidence of youth to adopt dairy farming as an occupation

To find out the gap between existing and advisable working self-confidence to adopt dairy farming as a dependable occupation, it is necessary to have the tool to measure it. Thus, a scale to measure working self-confidence of youth to adopt dairy farming was developed using "Scale Product Method’ which is a combination of Thurston's technique of Equal Appearing Interval Scale for an assortment of the statements and Likert's method of summated rating for determining the response on the scale. A provisional list of 33 statements was prepared to keep in view the applicability of statements matched with the topic of study. The collected statements were edited as per the suggested standard. The score of each individual item on the scale was calculated by summing up the weightage of the individual items. The Median or Scale and Q values were found out by using Thurston and Chave inter-quartile range. Finally, 10 statements where median (scale) values greater than Q values were selected. However, when a few statements had the same scale values, statements with the lowest Q value were chosen by arranging the scale value in order. Reliability was tested with 20 farmers and its value was 0.88 and validity of the scale was examined. After measuring the working self-confidence to be a successful dairy farmer with the ten selected statements, it was concluded that majority (95.50%) of the dairy farmers’ sons had a very high level of the overall operational or working self-confidence to be a successful dairy farmer.