Study of Subjective Well-Being as Affected by Residential Locale, Gender and Family Type a Developmental Analysis

In this study an attempt was made to find out the developmental impact of locale, gender and family type on well-being. Two hundred forty participants studying in Xth and /XIIth served in this study and they were arranged according to the requirements of 4-way factorial design with three locale (city, town and village), two grade (X and Xii), two gender (boy and girl) and two types of family (joint and nuclear) i.e.; 10 participant per cell. Data were analyzed by 4-way ANOVA and it was found that pattern of well-being was influenced by grade and gender. All interactions were significant. It was contended that a) variation in locale would cause variation in well-being, b) variation in grade would cause variation in well-being, c) variation in gender would cause variation in well-being, d) variation in family type would cause variation in well-being.