Personal Correlates of Happiness - Students Perspective

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The young generation in India faces so much chaos in their personal, social, as well as professional lives. Parents, media, politicians, educationists, and so on are targeting them without understanding the real wishes and dreams of the youth. The education provided, without knowing the real state of the problem, can be dangerous for them. One should understand their wants and also understand who is responsible for the same. In the same view, the present study is an attempt to observe the level of happiness among students and also try to find the correlates of the happiness level. The 29-item OHQ (Hills and Argyle 2002) structured questionnaire has been used for data collection. A total of 236 questionnaires were administered and 206 students filled the questionnaire with accuracy. Therefore, the sample size was 206. Independent sample t-test and ANOVA have been used for analyses. The results show that the students’ happiness level does not change with their residential comfort, qualification, academic score, and usage of gadgets; however, the level differs with gender and relationship status.

Keywords: Happiness, Relation, Student, Gender

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