Intrapersonal skills as a predictor of happiness among college youth

Abstract

Surveys on happiness either national or international the position of Indians stands in lowest ranking on the globe. Indian culture provides lots of opportunities to be happy and enjoy happiness through social gathering and mass celebration of each happening and surroundings of an individual. still we stand behind to other countries on happiness. This motivates the author to work in this area. Therefore, Present study intends to measure the effect of intrapersonal skill and gender on happiness. Happiness is an attitude. It is the ability to feel satisfied with one’s life, to enjoy one and others and to have fun. Intrapersonal skills concern to the “inner self” of an individual. It determines about the awareness of a person’s self-feelings; how good one feels about himself and how he is doing things in life. Final sample 60 college male and female youth maintaining the ratio of 1:1 were selected for the study .the subjects were measured on intrapersonal skills, a scale developed by Sethi and Ajawani (2002) and happiness, test by Ajawani et.al.(2002).Pearson r=0.86 shows positive strong correlation between intrapersonal skill and happiness and it is significant at .01 level of confidence for 58 degrees of freedom.  Two-way ANOVA was computed to observe the effect of independent variables on dependent variable. Obtained F- ratios were found to be insignificant at any acceptable level of confidence. Hence it can be said that the variables considered in this work are correlated but do no affect one another. Therefore, research hypotheses were rejected and null-hypotheses are accepted.