Examining Depression among Male and Female College Students

The current research aims to study depression among male and female college students. The current research participants include a total of 80 students (40 male and 40 Female). Age range of both the student groups ranged from 20 – 22 years. Mean age of male and female students was 21.05 and 20.08 respectively. All these students had urban and semi – urban middle class socioeconomic background and were unmarried. All the students were studying in the third year of B. Sc (Bachelor of Science) course in Degree College Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. The data was collected through the “Personal Information Form”, “Hindi version of Beck’s Depression inventory”. T – test was used to compare the means of the two groups. Results showed that female students reported significantly higher depression than male students.