Quality of life as an indicator of flourishing among youth

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Rajesh Sachdev (Department of Statistics, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, New Delhi) Ritu Kaushik and Punam Midha (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

There is an innate desire among human beings to grow and flourish in life. Everybody aspires to lead a more fulfilling life. Now-a-days individuals especially youth simply aspire to flourish which may be caused by so many extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Quality of life(QoL) appears to be the prime intrinsic factor for determining their flourished life. With these speculations the current research is an attempt to explore QoL as a precursor of flourishing among youth. A purposive sample of 300 youth both male and female, postgraduates, within the age range of 21-25 years was selected from various departments of M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana, India). Standardized tools were used to assess their QoL and flourishing. Descriptive statistics, correlational and regression analyses were computed to measure the levels of overall and health related QoL (overall & its various domains )and flourishing and find out the relationship as well as predicting power of various domains of health related QoL with respect to flourishing. The findings revealed the high level of flourishing along with the best social health related QoL followed by psychological, physical and environmental health related QoL. Correlational analysis indicated the maximum high level of relationship of psychological health related QoL followed by physical, environmental and social health related QoL with flourishing. Regression analysis revealed psychological health related QoL emerged as the robust predictor followed by physical and social health related QoL as predictors (though weak) of flourishing among youth. The current findings highlighted that psycho-biosocial health related QoL served as the major resource of flourishing among Indian youth.