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Study of Subjective Well-Being as Affected by Residential Locale, Gender and Family Type a Developmental Analysis


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In this study an attempt was made to find out the developmental impact of locale, gender and family type on well-being. Two hundred forty participants studying in Xth and /XIIth served in this study and they were arranged according to the requirements of 4-way factorial design with three locale (city, town and village), two grade (X and Xii), two gender (boy and girl) and two types of family (joint and nuclear) i.e.; 10 participant per cell. Data were analyzed by 4-way ANOVA and it was found that pattern of well-being was influenced by grade and gender. All interactions were significant. It was contended that a) variation in locale would cause variation in well-being, b) variation in grade would cause variation in well-being, c) variation in gender would cause variation in well-being, d) variation in family type would cause variation in well-being.

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Locale, Gender, Family Type, Well-Being.
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Pooja M. Gailakoti
Department of Psychology, Kumaun University, Almora, India
Aradhana Shukla
Department of Psychology, Kumaun University, Almora, India

Abstract


In this study an attempt was made to find out the developmental impact of locale, gender and family type on well-being. Two hundred forty participants studying in Xth and /XIIth served in this study and they were arranged according to the requirements of 4-way factorial design with three locale (city, town and village), two grade (X and Xii), two gender (boy and girl) and two types of family (joint and nuclear) i.e.; 10 participant per cell. Data were analyzed by 4-way ANOVA and it was found that pattern of well-being was influenced by grade and gender. All interactions were significant. It was contended that a) variation in locale would cause variation in well-being, b) variation in grade would cause variation in well-being, c) variation in gender would cause variation in well-being, d) variation in family type would cause variation in well-being.

Keywords


Locale, Gender, Family Type, Well-Being.