Developing Multidimensional Scale for Effective Measurement of Rural Leadership

Many social researchers measure multidimensional variables, such as rural leadership, by aggregating the scores of individual dimensions / sub-dimensions. These dimensions / sub-dimensions are highly correlated and have inherent problem of multicolinearity which causes attenuation in measurement. In order to overcome this problem, the M-K-J-B-D method developed by a group of researchers, has been used to construct multidimensional scale of rural leadership. The advantage of multidimensional rural leadership scale is being demonstrated by comparing it with uni-dimensional scale in further statistical analysis. The present study is a blending of two research findings where the data on rural leadership have been collected from randomly selected 160 followers and 40 leaders from rural areas of Uttarakhand State of India and these have been tested through a method for developing a valid multidimensional scale with absolute reliability for effective measurement of rural leadership.