Gender as Predictor of Subjective Well-Being and Happiness in Adult Peoples With Respect To Nature of Drinking.

Abstract

The present study aspired to investigate whether Gender is a predictor of Subjective Well-being and Happiness in Adult peoples with respect to nature of drinking. It was hypothesized that Gender will be significant predictor of Subjective Well-being and Happiness in adult people with respect to Nature of drinking. A purposive sample of 120 human participants (age range 25-45 years) with balanced number of males and females was selected for the present study. Out of these 120 Human Participants, 40 of them were Alcohol Addicts (20 Males and 20 Females), 40 of them were Social Drinkers (20 Males and 20 Females) and the remaining 40 of them were exclusively Teetotalers (20 Males and 20 Females). The Alcohol Addicts and Social Drinkers were traced from various hotels, bars, pubs and counseling centers in Sri Ganganagar and Jaipur district of Rajasthan State. Subjective Well-benig was measured by Mental Health Inventory (Jagdish and Srivastava A.K. 1983) and Happiness measured by Happiness Scale (Argyle and Hills, 2002). Multiple Regression Analysis was computed through SPSS 17. It was empirically proved that Gender was a significant negative predictor of Well-being and Happiness in Adults. It was also empirically proved that Nature of Drinking was a significant negative predictor of Well-being but a significant positive predictor of Happiness in Adults.