Mother's Level of Income on Students Perceptions of Campus Adaptations

Abstract

Objective: - The study aims to empirically test the relationship between types of campus adaptations across student's mother's level of income at engineering undergraduate B. Tech students pursuing a four-year study at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT's) and National Institute of Technology (NIT's) in India.

Method: - The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (Manova) test was run with SPSS vs. 21 to compare the student's campus adaptations of IIT's and NIT's by student's mother's level of income. Multistage random sampling with n = 1420 students were selected comprising of income upto 1,000 (n = 27), income limit of 1,001 – 5,000 (n = 47), income limit of 5,001 – 10,000 (n = 49), income limit of 10,001 – 20,000 (n = 66), income greater than 20,000 (n = 238), no income (n = 911) and students who dint know their parent's income (n = 82)

Result: -  In Academic adaptation, students whose mother's income was 1,001 to 5,000, 5,001 to 10,000, 10,001 to 20,000 and students who were unaware of their mother's level of income had positive outcomes while students whose mother's income was upto 1,000, greater than 20,000 and no income had negative outcomes. In social adaptation, students whose mother's income was 1,001 to 5,000 10,001 to 20,000, greater than 20,000 had positive educational outcomes while students whose mother's income level was upto 1,000, 5,001 to 10,000, no income and students who were unaware of their mother's level of income had negative outcomes. In physical – psychological adaptation, students whose mother's income was 1,000 to 5,000, no income and students who were unaware of their mother's income level had positive outcomes while students whose mother's income was upto 1,000, 5,000 to 10,000, 10,001 to 20,000 and greater than 20,000 had negative outcomes. In institutional adaptation, students whose mother earned upto 1,000, 1,001 to 5,000, 5,001 to 10,000 had positive outcomes while students whose mothers earned 10,001 to 20,000, greater than 20,000, no income and students who were unaware of their mother earnings had negative outcomes.

Conclusion: - Campus adaptations do vary across student's mother's level of income influencing student's experiences at IIT's and NIT's