Level of development-orientation in educated unemployed young men: The reality

A randomly selected group of 400 highly educated young men equally divided into: technically educated unemployed, non-technically educated unemployed, technically educated employed. and non-technically educated employed were compared in terms of their level of development-orientation and its dimensi ons measured by a 41-item 4-point Development Orientation Scale (Nasar, Ran i and Singh, 1995). All the groups were found to differ significantly from one another in this regard. But. the multiple comparisons between the Mean values showed them to be not markedly different from each other an most of the dimensions of development-orientation, and particularly so at the intra -group level. It was, however, apparent that the non-technically educated u nemployed young men, followed by the technically educated ones, were: clear ly less development-oriented, but, like their employed counterparts, they w ere not below moderate level, Moreover, both the unemployed groups scored h igh on risk-taking and low on liberal and progressive views. The employed g roups were also high on risk-taking, but, unlike the former, low on egalita rianism.