A Quest through Self: Relationship between Righteousness, Ethics and Thriving

Abstract

As the present world witnesses’ wounds on the ideas of what is wrong and right, with acts of violence, attacks and corruptions, the present study was conducted to focus on the relationship between righteousness, ethics and thriving. As family ties loosen with the enumerating growth of nuclear families, the study also focuses on the difference between joint families and nuclear families in the context of instilling values and acts of what is right and wrong. The study was conducted on 130 participants selected through snowball sampling across India. Three scales were used to collect data, the righteousness scale, the thriving scale and the Santa Clara (2019) scale for ethics. Statistical operations identified a significant difference in means among joint and nuclear families in relation to righteousness and a positive correlation among righteousness, thriving and ethics.