• Kalpana Srivastava
• Nidhi Gupta

Solid waste comprises kinds of waste and one is household waste that generates in-home through various household activities. This waste has all categories of waste i.e. wet, dry, hazardous and sanitary waste. It’s essential to identify the practices followed by homemakers for disposal of household waste for a sustainable environment. Knowledge, attitude and exposure of people influence the practice of waste management. In the current research study, the three-point Likert rating scale has been developed to measure the waste management practices of the homemakers. The scale involved two main parts: (i) Segregation of HHW (ii) Disposal of HHW. The content validity of the scale has been checked by ten judges of diverse fields. Forty-eight items from the scale were tested on 470 homemakers. The reliability of the scale was found 0.67 with few items that have (-) and (0) corrected item-total correlation value, which was declining the overall reliability of the scale. After dropping those items from the scale, again the reliability was checked and it has been discovered that there was increase in the overall reliability of the practice scale. As a final standardized scale, the practice scale comprised of thirty items with 0.77 value as the overall reliability.

Waste management, Household, Practices, Homemakers and Women.

"STANDARDIZATION OF THE SCALE TO MEASURE THE PRACTICES OF THE HOMEMAKERS TOWARDS MANAGING THEIR HOUSEHOLD WASTE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.470-473, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908680.pdf

"STANDARDIZATION OF THE SCALE TO MEASURE THE PRACTICES OF THE HOMEMAKERS TOWARDS MANAGING THEIR HOUSEHOLD WASTE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp470-473, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908680.pdf