Relationship of National Development with Attitude towards Globalization and Personality factors of three Generations in Bangladesh

Abstract

The present study has attempted to investigate the relationship of national development with attitudinal variables of globalization in relation to open -closed mindedness, personality variables of IPC, and demographic factors of three generations in Bangladesh. For this purpose, the similarities and differences of attitudes towards globalization of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations in relation to national development attitudes, open-closed minded attitude, personality variables of IPC and socio-demographic factors within the framework of socio-cultural background have been investigated. The study has been developed in the theoretical framework of (1) Theoretical Approaches to Attitude, Social Change and National Development, (2) Theoretical Approaches to the Globalization, (3) Globalization and social change approach, (4) Modernism-Traditionalism attitude change approach, (5) Open mindedness-close mindedness attitudinal approach, (6) Rotters Expectancy-Reinforcement models of personality, (7) Theoretical Approaches to the Generational differences and (8) Demographic Approach. All these approaches have been utilized in order to show similarities and differences of attitudinal variables of globalization and national development of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations. The present study uses a multidimensional correlational approach with a criterion group design. The study was conducted on two phases. In the first phase, criterion groups of younger, middle aged, and older educational generations were selected on the basis of 'Generational Differences Criteria Questionnaire' (GDCQ) for measuring generation gap. The criterion group of each educational generation was further subdivided into gender, i.e., male, & female and residential background i.e., having urban & rural residential background on the basis of their responses to the questionnaires. The use of criterion group design has considerable advantage in highlighting the intergenerational differences among younger, middle aged, and older educational generations, as well as gender and residential background differences in relation to national development attitudes, attitude towards globalization and personality variables selected for the study. In the second phase, the criterion groups were given following measures: a) Attitude Towards Globalization (ATG) Scale b) National Development Attitude (NDA) Scale c) Open-Closed- minded Attitude (OCA) Scale and d) Levinson's IPC Scale. Demographic information included gender, residential background differences and criteria questionnaire. The present study used a sample characteristically divided into generation (younger, middle age and older), gender (male and female), and residential background (urban and rural). The respondents were the students and educationalists (younger and older teachers) of different educational institutions. They all were graduates. In this study, the sample was equally divided into younger, middle age and older generational groups on the basis of generational differences (N=160 for each group). Then they were equally divided into urban and rural on the basis of residential background (N=80 for each group). Again, each group was equally subdivided into male-female on the basis of gender (N=40 for each group). Thus, the study composed of total 480 respondents with three levels of generation, two levels of residence and two levels of gender (3X2X2). In this study, the respondents were purposively selected according to the research purpose…………………….