Money attitudes play a pivotal role in the lives of emerging adults as they finish secondary school, begin leaving
home, prepare to manage their own homes, and start their own families. Despite its potential importance, money attitudes
and their relationships to financial behaviors have remained relatively unexplored in family scholarship, even in the social
psychology literature which has extensive attitude-behavior research. The purpose of this paper is to explore dimensions in
money attitude among professional students. Sample consisted of 500 (300 engineering and 200 management) students and
data were collected by using questionnaire of money attitude based on Yamauchi & Templer money attitude scale
(Likert’s five point scale). Sample was selected from different Engineering and Management Colleges of Agra city.
After scoring, results indicate that professional students view money as a tool of power, use money to either impress or
dominate people and money is regarded as a source of anxiety as well as a source of protection from anxiety.
