Gender and community differences on anxiety and depression among college students

Pages: 374-377
Anjana Bhattacharjee (Department of Psychology, Maharaja Bir Bikram College, Tripura University, Tripura)

The present study was designed to assess gender and community differences on anxiety and depression among college students of Tripura. The study was carried out at Agartala and its suburban areas covering 200 college students, of which 100 were male students and 100 were female students. Further among them 100 were tribal students and the rests were non- tribal students. Data were collected by Basic Information Schedule, State Trait Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depressive Inventory. Findings revealed significant gender difference on anxiety and depression among the study subjects. This further revealed that male students were less anxious as well as less depressed than their counterparts. However, the present findings did not revealed any significant difference among tribal and non-tribal students in regard to their anxiety and depression.