Spirituality and gratitude among college students: A study on gender differences

Pages: 1919-1921
Ritu Rani and Nayanika Singh (Department of Psychology, P.G. Govt. College for Girls, Sector-42, Chandigarh)

The study aimed to assess the effects of gender on spirituality and gratitude among college students. “Gratitude is a positively balanced emotion that can rise when another person a benefactor- does something kind for the self (Algoe 2016)”.“Spirituality represents the specialization and detachment of profundity from everyday life into a disembodied, disconnected, symbolic realm that becomes compensatory for an everyday life where immanence is banality (John Landau)”. The present study attempts to assess the effect of gender on spirituality and gratitude among 100 college students (adolescents). The sample was divided into two groups, i.e., 50 males and 50 females randomly selected from different colleges of Chandigarh. T-test was used to study the significance of difference between males and females on spirituality and gratitude. Results indicated that gender had no effect on both spirituality and gratitude among college students.