Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Developing a Scale for Attitude towards HIV/AIDS

Dr. Kuldeep Singh Katoch

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 The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable attitude scale which measures the attitude of adolescents towards HIV/AIDS. The criteria for writing statements as suggested by Wang (1932), Thurstone and Chave (1929), Likert (1932), Bird (1940) and Edward & Kilpatrick (1948) was used. The first draft of test containing 62 items was administered on a sample of 262 students (+1 & +2 class) selected from both government and private senior secondary schools. The ‘t’ was computed as recommended by Edwards (1957). Thurston (1961) suggested that ‘t’ value equal to or greater than 1.75 may be considered significant. So, the top 36 statements with the largest ‘t’ values (greater than 1.75) was retained as final draft of the scale. The correlation between the scores of the two halves of the attitude scale was computed by product–moment method. The reliability of scale was 0.90 and content validity of the attitude scale was determined while considering the items in the scale in preliminary draft and getting the language of each item checked by language expert. 

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Dr. Kuldeep Singh Katoch, Developing a Scale for Attitude towards HIV/AIDS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-8 | AUGUST‾2017

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