A Study of the Happiness Among the People with Reference to Their Marital Status and Gender

Abstract

The present study is of Happiness among people who have status with married and unmarried. This study is aimed to check happiness with reference to types of marital status and gender. The happiness scale (RHMJ) prepared by Dr.Himanshi Rastogi and Dr.Janki Moorjani (2017) was used. The sample constituted total 120 people out of which 60 are from married (30 male and 30 female) and 60 are unmarried (30 male and 30 female). The data was collected from various areas of Ahmedabad city of Gujarat state. The data was scored and analyzed as per the norms of manual. ‘F’- test was being calculated for this study. Then the result of study showed that (1) There is significant difference between the mean score of the happiness among male and female. So, it could be said that the male group is having more happiness than female group. (2) There is significant difference between the mean score of the happiness among married people and unmarried people .so it could be said that married people group is having more happiness than unmarried people group. (3) There is no significant difference between interactive effect of the mean score of the happiness among gender and marital status.