Psychological Well-Being as Predictor of Academic Achievement Among Tribal Adolescents

Adolescence is a period where an adolescent realizes who he is and what he truly feels.  It is a significant time for youngsters to build up their ability for compassion, conceptual thinking and future time perspective; a period when the close and dependent associations with parents start to offer approach to more extreme relationship with peers and different adults.  Adolescence is the most vulnerable stage to the development of their well-being. Psychological well-being can be defined as a person’s evaluative reaction to his or her life either in terms of life satisfaction or effective balance or to the extent to which the psychological well-being resides within the experience of the individual as per Campbell, Converse and Rodgers, 1976. Psychological well-being means having a good emotional and mental health as the pillar of quality of life in a particular individual in diverse contents. It includes the way people used to evaluate their lives in present or in the past combining emotional reaction to different events, moods, judgments related to the way they live their lives.  The aim of this study is to assess the relation between psychological well-being and academic achievement among tribal and non-tribal adolescents. The total sample consists of 400 adolescents (200 tribal, 200 non-tribal) from Guwahati city of Assam. The findings revealed that the psychological well-being of non-tribal adolescents was higher than tribal adolescents. While among boys and girls of both the group, the psychological well-being of boys was found to be higher than girls. The findings also revealed that there is a significant relationship between psychological well-being and academic achievement and psychological well-being can predict academic achievement among tribal and non-tribal adolescents.