Volume : 6, Issue : 3, March - 2017

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AWARENESS ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND NATURALISTIC INTELLIGENCE OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

Mr. A. Sivasankar, Dr. C. Ramesh

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">This pape</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">r attempts to find the relationship between the awareness on disaster management and naturalistic intelligence of prospective teachers.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Simple random sampling technique w</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">as used, to draw a sample of 1041 (105 male and 936 female) <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">prospective teachers</span> from Colleges of</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Tirunelveli</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> District</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">s</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> in Tamil Nadu. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">The</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> Disaster Management Awareness Scale was employed to assess the awareness on disaster management and, the Naturalistic Intelligence Inventory was used to assess naturalistic intelligence with five dimensions, namely </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Admiration, Outdoor deeds, Environmental wakefulness, Biophilia and Logical hobbies.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> The correlation coefficient result reveals that there is significant positive relationship between<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">awareness on disaster management and naturalistic intelligence of prospective teachers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>