Optimism, meaning in life, spirituality and subjective well being in emerging adults in Kolkata: A brief exploratory study

Pages:232-237
Sreerupa Ghose and Sanjukta Das (Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata)

The concept of emerging adulthood is new. It is a by product of industrialization and has its origin in the post industrialized American society of 21st century. But Indian urban community is believed to have certain significant resemblance to post industrialized Americans .Keeping this in mind the present study explored four variables: subjective well being (SWB), optimism, meaning in life (presence and search ) and spirituality in the emerging adults of Kolkata, belonging to the age group of 20 to 25. Standardized questionnaires were administered to 50 male and 50 female emerging adults. Data was treated with appropriate statistics. No significant difference was found across gender as far as the variables included were concerned. Meaning in life presence emerged as the positive predictor of SWB. Spirituality emerged as a negative predictor of SWB.