Comparative assessment of subjective well-beingness among senior citizens
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2017
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CCSHAU
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Stress is satisfaction with life and well beingness in very old age constitutes a major concern for the elderly population as well for gerontological research. Keeping in mind concern for elderly, the present study was conducted in three phase. In phase I, The sample of 200 respondents was selected from both rural and urban areas of Hisar district from Haryana state. Further two blocks were selected randomly and out of which two localities of urban area and two villages were selected to draw the equal number of sample from each place. In phase II, out of these selected 200 elderly people, 50 respondents those were having low level scores of subjective well-being and were not bedridden, chronically ill, and willing to cooperate were selected for the intervention programme. In phase III, Subjective well beingness was assessed on the experimental group after the one month intervention yoga program. Results revealed that majority of the elderly were living in the joint family system in rural area in comparison to urban area. Subjective well beingness was assessed by using subjective well-being inventory by Nagpal and Sell. The results elucidated that „expectation-achievement congrence‟ is the factor which showed maximum gain in well-beingness in rural subjects whereas urban respondents in „family group support‟. The results found that factors like „general well-being positive affect‟, „confidence in coping‟, „social support‟ and „inadequate mental mastery‟ showed high positive significant association with age, education and family occupation. Increase in the education status of senior citizens results in increase in the level of subjective well-beingness and life satisfaction among seniors. The study further unveils that aspects like „vocational situation‟, „family life‟, „partnership relationship‟ and „psychological health‟ also showed high significant association with education of the senior citizens. Living arrangement was high positive significant association with age and education of the senior citizens.