scholarly journals Gender Differences in Spirituality And Subjective Well-being Among Working Couples in Indian Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raksha Singh ◽  
Anshubhi Bahadur

Every human being is seeking bliss and pleasure in his own experiences and understanding. Spirituality involves exploring certain universal themes – love, compassion, altruism, life after death, wisdom and truth, with the knowledge that some people such as saints or enlightened individuals have achieved and manifested higher levels of development than the ordinary person. Perception of Happiness and Satisfaction with life varies from person to person. So goes with the extent to which a person believes or feels that her /his life is going well. The current study aimed to examine the gender differences in spirituality and subjective well-being among working couples between 25 to 45 years of the age range (working men =50 and working women =50). The total sample consisted of 100 working couples. The Subjective Well-being Scale developed by Ed. Diener and Spirituality scale developed by S.S Haidari was used for the collection of data. Exploratory analyses and t-test of variables across gender and marriage categories were carried out. Correlation analyses were carried out in order to have a better understanding of the relationship among variable. Results indicated that there is a non-significant difference between working males and working females subjective wellbeing and working females are comparatively more spiritual and satisfied with life than their working male spouse.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Vijay Kumar Chattu ◽  
Pradeep Kumar Sahu ◽  
Neela Seedial ◽  
Gerlisa Seecharan ◽  
Amanda Seepersad ◽  
...  

Subjective well-being is defined as a person’s cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life. This study aims to investigate the differences in the domains of subjective well-being based on gender, type of school, and academic performance. Additionally, the study aimed to determine the factors (socio-demographic variables, including the academic performance of the students) that are predictive of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being was assessed using a questionnaire which included the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), which measured the respondent’s life satisfaction, the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE), which consisted of six positive and negative emotions, and, lastly, the Flourishing Scale (FS), which measured the respondents’ self-perceived success. Data were collected, transformed into a linear scale, and exported into SPSS version 24, where t-tests, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation, and stepwise regression were performed. Of the total of 535 participants, the majority were females (383 = 71.6%) and studying in a school of medicine (31.8%). With respect to the SWLS and FS, a significant difference was reported among students based on the type of school and their academic performance (p < 0.05). While comparing the differences in the SPANE, a significant difference was recorded based on academic performance. Among the domains of subjective well-being, only the SPANE showed a significant association with academic performance. Greater subjective well-being correlates with higher academic performance, indicating that subjective well-being is an important aspect of a student’s academic life; provisions can be made by paying more attention to those who showed poor academic performance during and at the end of each semester.


Author(s):  
André Hajek ◽  
Hans-Helmut König

Previous studies have mainly focused on interindividual income comparisons (e.g., comparisons with colleagues or neighbors), whereas intraindividual income comparisons (i.e., difference between factual income and expectations) have rarely been investigated in well-being research. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of intraindividual income comparisons on subjective well-being (negative/positive emotions and life satisfaction) longitudinally. Data from 2005 to 2013 (biannually) were used from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a nationally representative, longitudinal study. Affective well-being (negative and positive emotions) were quantified by using the affective well-being scale-SOEP. Life satisfaction was quantified using the widely used one-item form. Intraindividual income comparisons were analyzed by using the distance between the own individual income and fair income (“how high would your net income have to be in order to be just”). We tested whether negative (i.e., factual income was lower than their self-rated just income) and positive income comparisons (otherwise) affect the outcome measures differently. Fixed effects regressions showed that positive emotions increased with positive income comparisons in the total sample (β = 0.16, p < 0.05). In contrast, negative income comparisons neither affect negative emotions nor satisfaction with life. Strategies to shift income expectations might be beneficial for increasing positive emotions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Ulin Nuha Rahmawati ◽  
Fuad Nashori ◽  
Ratna S. Rachmahana

This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of mindfulness teaching training in improving the subjective well-being of teachers in an inclusive school in Yogyakarta. This research used non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design. There were 22 respondents which divided into 11 respondents for treatment group and 11 respondents for control group. They were asked to complete a survey consists of the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) and positive and negative scale (PANAS) before and after experiment. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the subjective well-being of inclusive school teachers group given mindfulness teaching training and that of the teachers in the teachers group without mindfulness teaching training. This finding indicates that mindfulness teaching training was effective to improve inclusive school teachers’ subjective well-being.


Author(s):  
Shalini . Sharma ◽  
Sachin . Tomer

Prosocial behavior is a collective term covering all activities that are advantageous to other persons or the society in general (Piliavin, Dovidio, Gaertner, and Clark, 1981). It can be divided into three categories of altruism, helping, and cooperation. The notion of why certain people help more willingly than others, and with varied frequencies; and what purpose does it solve in a person's life by extending a helping hand to someone, is what led to the origin of this study. Literature review revealed there is sparse literature available on Indian adolescents. Thus, the research objective is to explore various psychosocial factors that contribute to development of pro-social behaviour in late adolescence, and how they contribute to the experience of an individual's subjective well-being. Sample consisted of 200 college going students in the age group of 17-20 years. A variety of measures were used for the purpose: Prosocial Tendencies measure, Satisfaction with life scale and Positive and Negative affect scale. In addition a semistructured questionnaire was used to get qualitative data from 30 individuals. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, correlational techniques and t-test. Results indicated majority of students having an average frequency of prosocial behavior, predominantly public and compliant type of prosocial behavior, a low positive correlation between prosocial behavior and well-being, a significant difference between adolescents scoring low on pro-social behavior from those scoring high in terms of their satisfaction with life and no significant difference between males and females in terms of prosocial behavior tendencies.


IKON ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Paolo Inghilleri ◽  
Nicola Rainisio

- This paper investigates the connections between place attachment, Well-being and cultural differences in students of three European countries: Italy, Uk and Romania. A sample of 445 participants was investigated on a number of issues, including reported Well-being (using the Satisfaction with Life Scale), place identity, place attachment and place preferences. The results show an existing direct link between place attachment and life satisfaction; this relationship becomes stronger during the adolescence. A second cluster of data shows an emerging need to integrate and to balance global and local sense of belonging to improve the subjective Well-being. The last evidence concerns the perceived place identity, because there's a significant difference in managing the place meanings between cultural groups. In particular, the difference we found regards subjects who consider themselves citizens of other countries while residing in the three countries examined, and as such they presumably belong to linguistic and ethnic groups of long-time or recent immigration. This findings demonstrated the utility of the integration between Environmental and Positive Psychology, with the aim to investigate the suggested happiness-place links. The implications for new intercultural communication's strategies are discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-123
Author(s):  
Iwan Martin ◽  
Sartini Nuryoto ◽  
Siti Urbayatun

This study was an experimental research with randomized pretest-posttest control group design. The subjects of this study were students at muslim school of 12-16 years old. In the study group consisted of experimental and control groups. The experimental group received relaxation with dzikir training for four meetings with the duration of each meeting 1-2 hours. The scale of subjective well-being is adapted from the SWLS scale (satisfaction with life scale) developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985), and the positive and negative affect schedule from Watson, Clark, and Tellegen (1988). Data were analyzed using t-test based on gain score. The results showed that there was a significant difference in subjective well-being between experiment and control group Sig (p) = 0.001 (p <0.01). The conclusions showed that the level of subjective well-being of the adolescent have increased after being given the intervension of relaxation with dzikir. These results are also supported by observational and interview data that indicated that in general the participants in the intervention reported perceived change after the training, such as the feeling of feel restful, more comfortable, relieved, confident, eager, and more grateful to God’s favor.


Author(s):  
Raksha Singh ◽  
Anshubhi Bahadur

The present study aimed to examine the gender differences in spirituality and marital adjustment among single and dual earner couples between 25 to 45 years of age range ( working couples= 100; male =50 and female=50, Single earner couples=100; working males=50, non-working females=50) . The total sample consisted of 200 participants. The Spirituality Scale developed by S S Haidari and Marital Adjustment Questionnaire ( MAQ ) developed by Kanchana Rohatgi and Pramod Kumar were used for collection of data.. Exploratory analyses and two way ANOVA was applied across gender and variables. Correlation analysis was conducted out in order to have a better understanding about the relationship between variables. Results indicate that women are better in spirituality than men, and dual earner female couples have higher mean scores in spirituality than other groups. Findings also reveal that there is no significant gender difference in marital adjustment among single and dual earner couples .And there is positive correlation between Spirituality and marital adjustment.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Anjali Sahai ◽  
Prof. (Dr). Abha Singh

Organizational Justice has the potential to create major impact on organizations and employees alike. These include greater commitment, trust, enhanced job performance, more citizenship behaviors and less number of conflicts. It has been reported that employees seem to have a universal concern for Justice that transcends the self and that many are subject to biases at various point of time in their work life. Sometimes these biases lead to adverse outcomes including decreased level of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is a broad category that includes life satisfaction, positive affect, and low negative affect, such as anger, sadness and fear. Thus to study the relationship between Organizational justice and subjective well-being, a sample of 88 employees working in Private Universities of NCR region were examined. For this purpose, the Organizational Justice scales consisting of Measure of Procedural & Interactional Justice and Distributive Justice Index scale by Moorman, Blakely & Niehoff (1998) and Subjective Wellbeing Scales inclusive of the Satisfaction with Life Scale(SWLS),Scale of Positive and Negative Experience(SPANE) and Flourishing Scale (FS) by Ed Diener (2004)were used. Results indicate significant relationship between the three types of Organizational justice and subjective well-being of employees.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelhafid Benksim ◽  
Rachid Ait Addi ◽  
Elhassania Khalloufi ◽  
Aziz Habibi ◽  
Mohamed Cherkaoui

Abstract Background As the world’s population ages and people live longer, it seems important to ensure that older people have a good quality of life and positive subjective well-being. The objective of this study is to determine socio-economic, health and nutritional characteristics of institutionalized and non-institutionalized elders in the province of Marrakech. Methods This study was conducted among 368 older adults in the province of Marrakech between March 2017 and June 2019. Of all participants, 180 older adults reside in a public institution and 188 of them live in their own homes. Data on health conditions, nutritional status, functional and socio-economic characteristics were collected. Data was analyzed using SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 16.0. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Results Institutionalized elders were illiterate (80.0%), had low incomes (95.5%), and unmarried (73.3%), they reported also no children (56.1%) and no health insurance (98.9%). Institutional residents suffered from malnutrition (22.2%), hearing impairments (35.6%) and severe edentulism (43.3%). There was no significant difference between both groups on daily activities and depression. A multivariate analysis identified a model with three significant variables associated with non-institutionalized elders: health insurance (P = 0.001; OR = 107.49), number of children (P = 0.001; OR = 1.74) and nutritional status (p = 0.001; OR = 3.853). Conclusions This study shows that the institutionalization of older adults is considerably induced by various factors such as nutritional problems, lack of health insurance and family structure. To mitigate the effects of this phenomenon, home care strategies and preventive actions should be implemented to delay the institutionalization of older adults and therefore keep them socially active in their own homes.


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