Quality of life of farm labour in BPL village
Pages: 1163-1166
Sonu Bharti and Pallavi Bhatnagar (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)
Quality of life is defined as ”individual’s perception of their positions in life in the context of the culture and values system in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standard and concern. It is a board ranging concept affected in a complex way by person’s physical health, psychological state, and level of independence, social relationships, personal belief and their relationship to salient features of their environment”. There are many villages in India whose residents face various problems such as social exclusion, poverty, unemployment, denial of basic amenities such as education, primary health care. Their average situations negatively affect the person’s perception of their quality of life. The present study explores the quality of life of different age group of male and female farm labours of village Levruwa, Jaunpur district Uttar Pradesh. Further the t- test has also been calculated to find out the gender difference. The major finding reveals that females have found higher scores dimensions of quality of life marginalized work, on all three personal and socio-economic dimensions in comparisons to their male counterparts.
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Pages: 1163-1166
Sonu Bharti and Pallavi Bhatnagar (Department of Psychology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)