Psychological Well-Being among College Going Students
Dr. Chattu Mondal
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Swami Vivekananda University, Barrackpore, West Bengal
Received: 10 November 2025; Accepted: 20 November 2025; Published: 26 November 2025
ABSTRACT
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.
Key wards: Psychological well being, College students, Social category.
INTRODUCTION
Psychological well-being has become one of the crucial aspects of the modern psychology. It has attracted not
only the psychologists but also medical practitioners in compliance to the mental health, emotions, depression,
stress etc. of the individual’s academic and social life. Right from the existence of behavioural sciences,
efforts have been made by researchers of different disciplines to get deep understanding about the various and
different dimensions and correlates of psychological well-being. Freud, Jung, Bandura, Erickson, Piaget and
many others have given space in their early works. All have much studied about the various aspects of
subjective as well as psychological well-being. Behaviorists have postulated that psychological well-being is a
learned process of different forms of individualistic views in accordance to the certain psychological responses
such as self-efficacy, self-disclosure, anxiety, personality types, emotional aspects, social support, financial
success etc.; when an individual get reinforced from external support/stimuli in the forms of appreciation or
reward then he or she responses in the line of wellness. This asserts that psychological well-being is a crux in
the understanding and enplaning of behavior. (Ryff, 1989).
The psychological well-being of college students can influence not only their academic and professional
success, but also the development of society as a whole Making one's own mental health a priority while in
college is ideal. In order to improve the overall psychological well-being among college students, special
attention with concerted efforts by the government has been made, formulating mental health policies by early
detection and identification of psychologically unhealthy students and providing treatment of students'
psychiatric disorders (Xinqiao Liu, 2019). Psychologically healthy students have good mental health and
maintain positive interpersonal relationships. They have a constructive spirit and keep a positive outlook on
life (Waghmare, 2016). Thus, it is imperative for college students to possess good psychological well-being.
College for most students is a place full of doubt, anxiety, and even failure (Kumaraswamy, 2013). Unpleasant
experiences felt by students in higher education can be a significant source of stress and can reduce the quality
of life for students (Hu Ebner & McCullough, 2000). When students experience boredom, they will feel they
do not have a good social relationship and their actualization on campus seems to be ignored. Conditions,
where students feel that the learning climate on campus is not pleasantly caused by stress levels can have an
impact on the poor interpersonal relationships of students. This can lead to more complex student problems.
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