Risk taking Behaviour among PG women students in Madurai Kamaraj University Departments

Abstract

Risk-taking is a part of broder aspects of decision making where one has to take risk for solution of one’ problems. One may expect to find the uncertainty of achieving desirable goals and the penalties that might happen from failure in attaing that particular goals. Now-a- days this is more important for the women students.

Religion, Course of study, Nativity, Residence and Father’s Occupation are the variables involved in the study.

The methodology of the study is survey. The sample consists of 180 PG Women Students from Madurai Kamaraj University Departments. ‘t’ test for significant differences between the means of large independent samples was used.

The findings reveal that PG women students in Madurai Kamaraj University Departments possess high level of risk-taking behavior. It should be developed among the all the Colleges. Educational authorities should take necessary steps to inculcate the risk-taking behaviour among the women students right from the early school level to higher education.