Socio-psychological impact and measurement of components in relation to SHG among the members in Junagadh district

Abstract

The Self Help Groups are a viable alternative in achieving the objectives of women empowerment in terms of social, economic, psychological, health, cultural and political empowerment. By using the multistage purposive and random sampling technique, total 180 respondents (90 SHG members + 90 Non SHG members) were selected from three talukas of Junagadh district of Gujarat state. The results of this study indicated that among the all indicators, SHG members (65.78 per cent) had high level of mass media exposure with a first rank followed by decision making ability (65.62 per cent) and communication ability (63.60 per cent) with rank second and third, respectively. While in case of Non SHG members, the first rank was occupied by communication ability with 50.64 per cent followed by social status (48.50 per cent) and decision making ability (45.80 per cent), with rank second and third, respectively. In case of level of socio-psychological, three-fifth of the SHG members (60.00 per cent) had medium socio-psychological level, while in case of Non SHG members more than half (57.78 per cent) of respondents had medium socio psychological level. There was highly significant difference between socio psychological impact of SHG members and Non SHG members i.e. 61.20 and 46.11 mean score, respectively. Therefore, the mean difference between SHG and Non SHG members was 15.09. It can be concluded that the socio psychological level of SHG members was highly improved as compare to Non SHG members.