The Status of Subjective Well-Being, Role Stress, Coping, and Ego-Functions of the Tribal and Non-Tribal People of Tripura

Subjective well-being (SWB) refers to-people's evaluation of their lives-including cognitive judgments such as life satisfaction, and affective evaluations (mood and emotions) such as positive and negative emotional feelings. It seems, therefore, reasonable to assume that the factors of happiness lie both in the environment and within the individual. With this, the study aimed at finding out the relationship between SWB and a set of psychological characteristics. On the basis of literature, it was expected that problem focused coping, social support, and the different ego-functions will have positive contributions to SWB while role stress, emotion focused coping pattern will have negative or no contribution to happiness. The present study attempts to synthesize and evaluate the factors present in organizational role stress, individuals' unique coping styles and ego-functions which might play an effective role in the development of SWB on one hand, and on the other hand, might also cause deterioration in SWB of the tribal population of Tripura. The study was conducted over a sample of 800 working people drawn from different government and non-government organizations of Tripura. Result showed that the tribal people are significantly happier, stress-free than the nontribals that can be attributed to their simple life style and less competitive nature.