SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AFFECTING PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF RURAL POPULATION

Abstract

Psychological Well-Being (PWB) is one of the positive aspects to refers welfare, happiness, interests, and quality of life. The objective of this study was to find out the role of gender, type of family, age, caste-category, socio-economic status, and education level in predicting psychological 
well-being of rural population. 699 participants from villages of five district of Uttar Pradesh were selected randomly. The Psychological Well-Being scale (Sisodia, D.S. & Chaudhary, P., 2012) used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and stepwise regression analysis were 
calculated to test the hypotheses. Results showed that middle socio-economic status, nuclear family, age group 34-40 years, education level-Senior Secondary level and gender showed a significant correlation with psychological well-being and significantly predict psychological well-being. The final predictive model was - PWB = 193.741 + 5.202*(Middle SES) - 4.716*(age group 34-40 years) - 3.576*(EL-Senior Secondary level) - 3.441*(Male) + 3.478*(Nuclear Family). On the basis of result and discussion it can be concluded that the factors – like Socio-Economic Status, type of 
family, age of a person, education level and gender of a person significantly predict the PWB of a person and these factors should be taken into consideration along with other factors when studying 
PWB.