Effects of gender and education on social identity in chakma tribal population in Bangladesh

The present investigation was aimed at exploring the effect of psychosocial factors of social identity in Chakma tribal people living in three hilly districts of Bangladesh. Gender and education were considered as independent variables to investigate the multifaceted aspect of social identity in this tribal people. total 200 participants (100 males and 100 females) were selected from Chakma tribal population residing in the hilly Districts of Chittagong, Rangamati and Khagrachhari. Two criteria viz. graduates (school and college teachers) and non-graduates (college students) were considered and purposive procedure was used. Initially 25 students were stratified on the basis of gender and level of education for each cell. Then 25 students were selected randomly in each cell. Each division was again equally categorized into respondents of graduate and non-graduate of 50 participants in each category.