Impact of Psychological Well-Being among Graduate and Post- Graduate Youth

Abstract

Psychological well-being is the combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. The study examined the psychological well-being in boys and girls student of graduate and postgraduate level. A total of 144 students were randomly selected from various colleges and P.G. departments of Veer Kunwar Singh University, Ara. Of these, 72 students (36 boys and 36 girls) were from graduate and 72 students (36 boys and 36 girls) from postgraduate. Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (PWBQ) by Bhogle and Prakash were administered on the subjects. It was hypothesised that 1. There will be no differences between graduate and postgraduate students in the aspect of psychological well-being. 2. There will be no differences between boys and girls in the aspect of psychological well-being. And, 3. There will be no interaction effect of the psychological well-being in the types of education and sex. 2×2 factorial design was used and data were analysed by F-test. Result shows that first hypotheses is significant while 2nd & 3rd hypotheses were not significant.