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A Resilience scale to Measure Farmers’ Suicidal Tendencies in National Calamity Hit Region of India

S.P. Lal1 * , K.S. Kadian1 , S.K. Jha1 , S.R.K. Singh2 , J. Goyal3 , R.S. Kumar1 and S.P. Singh1

1 ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, 132001 India

2 Zonal Project Directorate, Zone VII, ICAR, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India

3 ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, 243122 India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.3.55

It is well recognized that India is the land of agriculture, but the recent trend shows that farmers in our country wants to quit agriculture in mass extent and are committing suicide; that is a threat to our sustainable agriculture. In this direction, the research was designed with the objective of developing a scale to measure resilience in relation to farmers’ life (RFL-Scale) in order to know why farmers are committing suicide or what motivates them to cope up in their life despite of numerous hardships. Therefore, the present study made an attempt to quantify the exact level of resilience, with the specific objective to develop and standardize a scale to measure resilience level of the farmers’ towards their life. The process started with selection of 54 statements and finally lists of 33 statements indicating the positive or negative resilience level were retained for scale development. The statements were edited in the light of the informal criteria suggested by Edwards. The total individual score of judges was calculated by summing up the weights given by judges to the individual statement. On the basis of total individual scores, 25 percent of judges with the highest total individual scores and 25 percent of judges with lowest total individual scores were taken assuming that these groups provided criterion groups in terms of high and low evaluated by the individual statement. In order to find out the discriminating index for each item, ‘t’ value was calculated using the formula and procedure given by Edwards. The scale so developed finally consisted of 18 statements (9 positive and 9 negative) whose‘t’ values were found to be significant at 1% level of significance. Validity and reliability of the developed scale indicated high level precision and internal consistency of the scale.

Resilience; Farmers; Suicide; Nation Calamity; Flood; Scale; Bihar; Haryana

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Lal S. P, Kadian K. S, Jha S. K, Singh S. R. K, Goyal J, Kumar R. S, Singh S. P. A Resilience scale to Measure Farmers’ Suicidal Tendencies in National Calamity Hit Region of India. Curr World Environ 2014;9 (3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.3.55

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Lal S. P, Kadian K. S, Jha S. K, Singh S. R. K, Goyal J, Kumar R. S, Singh S. P. A Resilience scale to Measure Farmers’ Suicidal Tendencies in National Calamity Hit Region of India. Curr World Environ 2014;9(3). Available from: http://cwejournal.org?p=586/

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