Analysis of undergraduate category & item reduction of prepared the vedic personality inventory tool

Abstract

Background: Vedic personality tool questionnaire is a cost-effective screening tool to detect different personality (Guna) of the people. Further the data can be used to interpret the sattva, rajas, & tamas. Aim: The aim of this study is to analyses of undergraduate student’s category & item reduction of Vedic personality inventory tool. Methodology: The study employed tool development method through which a questionnaire with 56 item was developed. There was inclusion or exclusion criteria was done. The questionnaire was given in the campus to all the courses except BAMS & staff of college. Data was collected through questionnaire and then transfer to the Excel sheet which was further analysed and interpreted. As it was a survey design there was no intervention. Result: This questionnaire study was done on total 1513 volunteer whose age range was 10 to 75years. the construct that I selected from questionnaire was undergraduate. Selected 18 item six question from each of the factor based on the higher to lower value. The overall internal consistency measured using Cronbach’s alpha was 0.78 for 18 item and three factor solution the alpha value is 0.779 (tamas), 0.866 (sattva), 0.692(rajas). Conclusion: I have performed an analysis on undergraduates category and item reduction of prepared Vedic inventory tool, the Cronbach’s alpha of sattva and tamas is more than rajas so by seeing the value of Cronbach’s alpha we can say that the quality of sattva and tamas is more in undergraduates and rajas is less as compare to other two gunas, we also matched the question of sattva, rajas and tamas from the Vedic inventory tool we come to conclusion that factor 1 is tamas, factor 2 is sattva and factor 3 is rajas.