Perceived social support among aged people: A gender perspective

Pages: 407-411
Chitra Mishra and Sandhya Ojha (Department of Psychology, Sri Agrasen Kanya P.G College, (MGKVP) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh )

The present study is designed to study the perceived social support among male and female aged people belonging to rural and urban areas. The sample consists of 300 aged people (150 male & 150 female), out of that 75 participants of rural and 75 urban aged people were taken from Varanasi district. Male and female participants belonged to age group (i.e., 55-65 years) .The data was collected with the help of social support scale (SSS), constructed and standardized by Asthana and Verma (2005).Certain descriptive statistics such as mean, SD and t-value was used for analyzing the data. The finding of the present study revealed significant difference between rural and urban aged people, but no significant difference were found between the male and female aged people regarding ES,IS dimension of social support.