Psychological Well-Being among College Going Students

In our traditional education period or nature of formal education, college level education is higher level of education. In this stage every individual tries to fulfill their dreams through higher education. So, the present study tries to find out Psychological Well Being among College Going Students in the respect of gender, caste and family monthly income. In order to perform this study, a descriptive survey method was suggested. The Psychological Well Being Scale (PWS) is a standardized questionnaire that the researcher utilized to gather pertinent data from 200 students as samples. Parametric statistics were used for analyzed the data. The findings indicated that there was no significant mean variation among the students’ psychological well-being.

Psychological well being, College students, Social category

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