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WELL-BEING OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Sudarshana Rana & Nisha Devi
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We are all interested in well-being, consciously or subconsciously, as together we create well-being. In
recent years, researchers, academician, policy-makers and politicians have been directly concerned with
well-being, which has been viewed variously as happiness, satisfaction, enjoyment, contentment; and
engagement and fulfillment, or a combination of these, and other, hedonic and eudemonic factors. Wellbeing is also viewed as a process, something we do together, and as sense making, rather than just a state
of being. It is acknowledged that in life as a whole there will be periods of ill-being, and that these may
add richness to life. It has also been recognized that well-being and the environment are intimately
interconnected. Certainly, well-being is seen to be complex and multifaceted, and may take different
forms. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the well-being of undergraduate students in
relation to their gender. The sample for this study comprised 150 undergraduate students. To measure the
well-being, Well-Being Index developed by Dr. Vijayalaxmi Chouhan & Dr. Varsha Sharma was used.
Study revealed that female undergraduate students possessed high well-being than that of male
undergraduate students.