Quality of Life Among Villagers

The present study examined the quality of life among villagers. Two hundred forty subjects varying along the levels of ecological change of village (joint and nuclear family), caste groups (GEN, OBC and SC) and gender (male and female) drawn from Maharajganj and Kushinagar district of eastern Uttar Pradesh completed the quality of life measure. The result reveled that subjects belonging to villages having nuclear family showed significantly higher quality of life than their counterparts subjects. Generally the male and female have similar interaction pattern so they have similar experience of quality of life. The evaluation of total quality of life found high in SC subjects in compression to GEN and SC but GEN expressed higher level of quality of life on one dimension i.e. psychological health. Education level was found positively related to QoL.