Body Image, Self-Efficacy, Emotional Support and Perceived Financial Difficulty as Predictors of Emotional Well-Being

The Present study tries to know that the body image, self-efficacy, emotional support and perceived financial difficulty are the good predictors of the emotional well-being or not. In the present study nine tests are used. First test is measured the life satisfaction; second test is measured the positive and negative affect; third test is measured the feeling of connectedness (these three scales were collectively measured the emotional well-being); fourth test is measured the self-efficacy; fifth test is measured the parent's emotional support; sixth test is measured the teacher's emotional support; seventh test is measured the classmate's emotional support; eighth test measured the perceived financial difficulty and ninth test measured the body image, on a sample of 222 male and female students from the different departments of the Veer Bahadur Singh, Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. For analysis of data Pearson's correlational technique and multiple regression analysis were used. The results pertaining to the relationship of the life satisfaction shows the positive and significant correlation with body image (.276**), parent's emotional support (.336**), classmate's emotional support (.274**) and negative but significant correlation with perceived financial difficulty (-.277**); positive affect shows positive and significant correlation with body image (.415**), self-efficacy (.431**), parent's emotional support (.383**), teacher's emotional support (.362**), classmate's emotional support (.308**) and significant negative correlation with perceived financial difficulty (-.191**); negative affect shows significant negative correlation with body image (-.240**), parent's emotional support (-.323**), teacher's emotional support (-.205**),classmate's emotional support(-.351**)and significant positive correlation with perceived financial difficulty (.424**) and in the same way feeling of connected ness having significant positive correlation with body image (.311**), self-efficacy(.140),parenfs emotional support (.358), teacher's emotional support (.267), classmate's emotional support (.520) and significant negative correlation with perceived financial difficulty (-.439). There gression analysis has revealed that parent's emotional support, body image and perceived financial difficulty are significantly contribute to the life satisfaction; body image, self- efficacy, parent's emotional support and teacher's emotional support are significantly contribute to the positive affect; perceived financial difficulty and classmate's emotional support are significantly contribute to the negative affect and feeling of connected ness both.