Psychologists in their attempt to study the behaviour of the general population did not neglect the tribal people in their studies. They found it very difficult to collect information from the tribal people. However there were some studies made very recently among the tribal groups. The data obtained from these tribal groups enabled us to compare their behaviour with other civilized and advanced groups. In this book emphasis has been laid upon school and college students of the tribal groups for assessing their interests and motivation. The behavioural patterns of different tribal groups and their social and their intelligence levels are assessed here. This book would be very much useful to those who are interested in knowing the behavioural patterns and the life styles of the tribal people in India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Rajamanickam
M. Rajamanickam has made many contributions to the field of Psychology both in English and Tamil. Some of them were used as Text-Books. He was the first to obtain the doctorate Degree of the Annamalai University in Psychology. He taught psychometry to the Post-Graduate students for more than two decades and the experience he had gained inspired him to write this book. Generally, to the students of Psychology, Psychometry is a nightmare. But this author has simplified all the intricacies of the field and made the students to like the subject. He has published quite a number of papers in foreign and in Indian journals. With his knowledge in Psychometry, he has designed and developed about thirteen test materials. His important publications are, Contemporary Fields of Psychology and Experiments; Statistical Methods in Psychological and Educational Research; Modern Psycho-Physical and Scaling Methods and experimentation, Modern General Psychology; and Advanced Experiments in Psychology, in two volumes. There are also a number of books in Tamil on Psychological themes. He is very much interested in guiding research, and produced twelve Ph.D., and about 40 M.Phil. Degrees. He started the Community guidance Service Centre in 1980 in the Department to extend the Psychological Services to the rural people also founded the Journal of Community Guidance and Research in 1984, of which he is the Editor and it is run for the past 20 years without any break or delay.
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