A study of psychological variables and subjective well-being among convicts of Punjab

Pages: 545-550
Aarti Bathla and Kirandeep Kaur (Department of Education and Community Service, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India)

This paper presents the study of subjective well-being, personality dimensions and self-esteem of convicts. Researchers investigated a sample of 200 convicts taken from the Central Jail, Patiala, Punjab for their subjective well-being, five factors of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and self-esteem. Analyzed data showed presence of low level of subjective well-being, agreeableness, conscien- tiousness and self-esteem in convicts. Most of the convicts possess high level of neuroticism. The results are in line with earlier studies.