Effect of Socio-Personal factors on goal setting pattern of farm families

The present study was undertaken to study the existing attitude and career goal setting pattern, effect of socio-personal factors of the homemakers on the attitude and career goal setting pattern and explore the constraints in goal setting and attainment of farm families. Results revealed that overall goal setting pattern of farm families was quite erroneous (overall SMART percent score of 11.39) with attitude goal setting per cent score of 5.86 and career 16.89. A positive non significant relationship between the age (0.10), education (0.07), family type (0.10), family size (0.12) and family income (0.09) of the respondents and their goal setting pattern was found. Major constraint faced by the respondents while setting the goals was lack of training to set goals (94.66%), ambiguous goals, frustration due to successive failure in goal achievement and hopelessness due to persistent struggle with uncertainties (82.66%).