Abstract
The present study was aimed to investigate the relationship between personality hardiness, social support,religiosity and loneliness purpose in life and subjective well-being in Retirees. The sample comprised 100 retireduniversity teachers from Himachal Pradesh (50 males and 50 females). The analysis revealed that for the totalsample, Purpose in Life (32%), Social Support (12%) and Religiosity (5%) have contributed 49% of variance intotality. In Males sample, Hardiness explained the maximum variance (27%) followed by Purpose in Life (14%),Social support (8%) and Religiosity (4%). In all, these variables have accounted for 53% of variance. In Femalessample, Religiosity contributed the maximum variance (32%) followed by Social support (18%) and Purpose inlife (8%). The results have shown the commonness of three variables viz., social support, purpose n life andreligiosity in predicting the subjective well-being of both the genders. Further, t-test has revealed the superiorityof females in subjective well-being, religiosity and social support and male’s superiority on hardiness, andpurpose in life. No significant difference was observed on the variable of loneliness.
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