Abstract
The present paper aimed to study psychological well-being in relation to gender and optimistic attitude among college students. Two hundred first year Arts, Commerce and Science students (100 males and 100 females) from different colleges in Islampur and Sangli (Maharashtra) participated in the present study. The participants received Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB) with five subscales (Sisodia and Choudhary, 2012) and Optimistic-Pessimistic Attitude Scale (Parashar, 1998). The multivariate and univariate analyses were directed to assess the subscale consistency of the PWB, the factor structure of the PWB in terms of its subscales, and gender differences in PWB, its subscales and optimistic attitude. The relationship between psychological well-being, its subscales and optimistic attitude has been thoroughly analyzed. The obtained results are discussed in the light of earlier work.
Highlights
ObjectivesThe objectives of the present study are as following.1. To explore the gender differences in psychological well-being and optimistic attitude, since the earlier finding in this regard are a bit inconsistent.2
One aim of the present study is to explore gender differences in psychological well-being by employing a tool having the dimensions of well-being which are somewhat different from Ryff’s dimensions
The data were carefully searched for univariate outliers using a cut-off criterion of z = ± 3.29, p ≤ .001 (Field, 2005) and multivariate outliers using Mahalanobis distance (D2), with a cut-off criterion of p ≤ .001, separately for males and females as well as for the entire sample. (While computing D2, Total psychological well-being was omitted, since its inclusion would lead to the problems related to multicollinearity and singularity.) This search identified four outlying observations
Summary
The objectives of the present study are as following.1. To explore the gender differences in psychological well-being and optimistic attitude, since the earlier finding in this regard are a bit inconsistent.2. The objectives of the present study are as following. 1. To explore the gender differences in psychological well-being and optimistic attitude, since the earlier finding in this regard are a bit inconsistent. 2. To study the relationship between psychological well-being and optimistic attitude. HYPOTHESIS Psychological well-being and optimistic attitude would be positively associated
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