Gratitude among college students: A comparative study

Pages: 54-55
Mini Jain (Department of Psychology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh)

The present study was conducted to explore gratitude among college student across gender, faculty of education, and domicile. It was hypothesised that there will be no significant difference in gratitude with consideration to the above mentioned variables. The total number of participants were 430 college going students (212 males & 218 females), with age range of 18-24 years and mean age of 20.34 years. Gratitude questionnaire by McCullough et al. was used to collect the data. With the help of t-test, the findings revealed that there was a significant difference between male and female, and between students of pure science and non-science faculty of education. No significant difference in the of level of gratitude between students belonging to rural and urban areas was found.