Psychological well being of adolescents

Adolescence is defined as period of transition between childhood to adulthood that involves biological, cognitive and socioemotional changes. Adolescence is a most vulnerable age for development. This stage requires intensive readjustment to education, social and family life. The discrimination and differentiation on the basis of gender is leading crisis in adolescence. Well being is connotative as a harmonious satisfaction of once desire and goals. Psychological well being plays a central role in the emotional and cognitive development of the human beings. Family and social support is a source of support of any individual and one of the motivating factors for human being to grow and achieve. The purpose of present study was to study the effects of type gender on psychological well being of adolescence. The total sample of one hundred and twenty of 60 males and 60 females were administered the measure of Carol Ryff’s Psychological well being Scale (1989) medium form. Data were analyzed by One -way ANOVA. It indicates significant differences between gender of psychological well being. It was observed that all the subscales of PWB scales correlated positively and significantly with the other subscales. Results revealed a significant effect of type of gender on psychological well being.