Subjective Well-Being as Associated with Manahar and Non-Manahar in Swadhyaya Pariwar: An Indigenous Perspective

Swadhyaya refers to an attitude of the mind; it is neither a sect nor a creed,nor a tradition,and nor an institution, nor an organized religion. It is the study and understanding of one's true and inner self and paying due respect to other selves. The term Manahar refers to senior citizen or old age, age ranging from 60 and onwards. Subjective well-being refers to general well-being-positive affect, expectation-achievement congruence, confidence in coping,transcendence,family group support, social support,pimaiy group concern, inadequate mental mastery, perceived ill health, deficiency in social contacts and general well-being- negative affect.The present investigation was conducted to explore the subjective well-being found to be associated with Manahar and Non-Manahar of Swadhyaya Pariwar and Non- Swadhyaya Pariwar respectively on a total sample of 100 including both male and female between the range of 60 to 80 years by employing two-group design to measure subjective well-being. The Subjective Well-being Inventory (SUBl) by Sell, H.and Nagpal, R. (1992) was used. The mean scores on the sample of Manahar and Non-Manahar along with the factors of SUBI found to be significant at Manahar of Swadhyaya Pariwar than of Non-Manahar of Non-Swadhyaya Pariwar.