Influence of selected factors on psychological well-being of rural and urban PUC students

Pages: 393-396
Soumya Kammar and Lata Pujar (Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka)

A study on “Influence of selected factors on psychological well being of rural and urban PUC students” was carried out in the year 2016-2017 in rural and urban areas of Dharwad taluk, Karnataka. The sample for the study comprised of 160 PUC students were from rural area and 160 from urban area of Dharwad taluk. The respondents’ age ranged from 16 to 18 years studying in PUC-I year and PUC-II year from Arts and Commerce streams. Ryff’s psychological well being scale (1995) was used to assess the psychological well being of PUC students. The results revealed that there exists a significant difference between class, gender, types of college and types of stream with regard to psychological well being of pre-university college students. Class wise comparison revealed that PUC II year college students had better psychological well being than PUC-I students. Gender wise comparison indicated that girls had better psychological well being than boys in both rural and urban areas. Significant association was observed between government and aided colleges in urban area with regard to psychological well being. There was significant association as well as difference observed between arts and commerce streams students with regard to psychological well being in rural area.

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Pages: 393-396
Soumya Kammar and Lata Pujar (Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Community Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka)