Abstract:
Introduction
In Sri Lanka, tendency to look for friends called “MITHURU HAWULA” can be seen almost every
nook and corner of the country, Sri Lanka in such places as Anuradhapura, Katunayaka, Dekatana,
Matara and Rambukkana. This being a way finding and associating with friends, it is worthwhile to
study the psychological basic of the motivation behind the behaviours of this nature and the nature
of of male and female motivation for “MITHURU HAWULA”. Therefore the current study tried
to identify the psychological basis of people’s looking for friends through MITHURU HAWULA
and find the differences available in this motivation.
Objectives
The current research consisted of two main objectives
1. To identify what motivation people for “MITHURU HAWULA”
2. To find the differences in male and female motivation for “MITHURU HAWULA”
Methodology
For the study, 20 participants (ten male participants and ten female participants) who were already
the members of the MITHURU HAWULA were employed as sample. To collect data Telephone
interviews, as apparatus, were used individually.
Results & Conclusion
As the results of the current research, it was able to come to conclusions that such motives as
love, finance, sex, isolation, friendship could be found as motives for looking for friends through
MITHURU HAWULA and there was a difference in male and female motivation to look for friends
through “MITHURU HAWULA”.
