Assessment of Lifestyle and Life satisfaction among Rural and Urban Youth
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The Aim was “To study the Life style and Life satisfaction among Rural and Urban Youth”. The purpose of the study was to find out current status of Life style and Life satisfaction among Rural and Urban Youth. The total sample of 100 (50 students from rural area and 50 students from urban area) young people. Age between 18-30 year old young people to participate in the study from different rural and urban areas. The participants completed Life style scale developed by S. K. Bawa and S. Kaur (2012) and Students’ life satisfaction scale (SLSS) developed by Huebner (1991) was used to measure life satisfaction. The obtained data was analyzed by using mean, SD and‘t’- test. Further, Spearman’s coefficient of correlation was applied. The result of the study concluded that there is a significant difference between rural and urban youths on Life style, and there is a significant difference between life satisfaction among rural and urban youths. Also, there is a significant relationship between Life style and life satisfaction among rural and urban youth.
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