Study on well-being, anxiety and depression among young adults

Aim: Depression is more than just sadness. People with depression may experience a lack of interest and pleasure in daily activities, significant weight loss or gain, insomnia or excessive sleeping, lack of energy, inability to concentrate, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide (by APA adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology). Anxiety is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure. People with anxiety disorders usually have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns. (by APA adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology). Psychological well-being refers to inter- and intraindividual levels of positive functioning that can include one’s relatedness with others and self- referent attitudes that include one’s sense of mas-tery and personal growth (Carol Ryff, University of Wisconsin Madison). The present study aimed to investigate the well-being, depression and anxiety among young adults. Method: This study was done on 106 young adults aged 18- 25, out of which 56 were males and 50 were females through purposive sampling method. Study also adopt a between group design. Well-being questionnaire (Gold Berg 1972) for measuring well-being and Mehrabian trait anxiety and depression scale (The Albert Mehrabian 1994) were used to collect data. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, mann- Whitney U test and spearman rank correlation. Result: Results proves that, there is no significant difference in the level of well-being among young adults across their gender. There is no significant effect in the level of anxiety and depression among young adults across their gender. There is no significant relationship between well-being and anxiety and depression.