Abstract
The main objective of the study was to compare the Anxiety Level of Senior Citizens of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh State of India. The present researcher used simple random sampling method for the selection of 2000 subjects (Senior Citizens) for the present study. 100 Male and 100 Female Senior Citizens were taken together from each district taken for the present study of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh State of India. The study was conducted by using the Standardized Questionnaires for measuring the Anxiety Status of Senior Citizens. - Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS). The data collected was statistically analyzed by using Percentage and Chi Square was specially used to found the significance difference in Anxiety Level of both states. Conclusion: The male and female senior citizens of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh differed significantly in respect to their Anxiety Level.
Highlights
Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination
100 Male and 100 Female Senior Citizens were taken together from each district taken for the present study of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh State of India
The data for the present study was collected from Senior Citizens of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh State
Summary
Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination. The global population of elderly has constantly been increasing during the second half of the last century This has been possible due to easy availability of life saving drugs, control of famines, and various communicable diseases, better awareness and supply of nutrition and health facilities and comparatively better overall standard of living. According to World Population Data Sheet- 2002, 4 per cent of the Indian population is in the age group of 65+ which accounts for 41.9 million This phenomenon of growing population of senior citizens has been the result of recent successes in the achievement of better health standards and a longer span of life for our citizens. Due to this dependency ratio for the old had raised from 10.5 per cent in 1961 to 11.8 per cent in 1991; it is projected to be 16.1per cent by 2021
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