Psychological Well-Being of the School Students with Respect to Gender

In the present age of multiple stress staying “healthy” is a challenge. Psychological well-being means a good mental and emotional state having a meaningful, balanced and capable of handling challenges of life. It is essential for carrying out the tasks of life properly. The present study tries to analyse the psychological well-being of the school students with respect to gender. Sample comprised of 164 school students from class VIII, of which 83 male and 81 female students from government schools from three different districts of West Bengal (namely Kolkata, South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas). The design of the study is descriptive survey research. The sample was taken by using stratified random sampling method. For measuring psychological well-being of the school students, the researchers’ self-constructed and standardised scale was used. After the collection of data, the researchers have done the normality test of the data. The data is found normal, so parametric test like t-test has been applied for the analysis of data. From the findings of the study, a significant difference in psychological-wellbeing is found to exist with respect to gender.