Background: - Psychological well-being plays a major role in physical education majors while they have unique opportunities for promoting physical and mental well-being, they also face their own set of challenges. It influences their academic performance, professional development, and overall quality of life.
Purpose: - The objectives of the study to compare the psychological wellbeing of male and female students who are pursuing B.Sc. B.P.Ed. M.P.Ed. in physical education and to assess the different variables Autonomy, Environmental mastery, Positive relation, Purpose in Life, Self-acceptance and high on Personal Growth. The study’s findings will assist teachers build appropriate training programs for physical education students.
Methodology: - The study was conducted on 114 (81 male and 33 female) physical education students who are pursuing B.Sc., B.P.Ed., M.P.Ed. from the different colleges of India and lying between age group of 18-25 years. The Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scales (PWB), 42 Item version is a psychometrically sound test that includes 42 items and 6 variables. The collected data was analysed using the Independent sample T- test with the help of SPSS-22 version. The graphical representation of data was done by using MS Excel-21 version.
Result: - Result of t-test showed that there was no significant difference between male and female physical education students of different colleges of India, for the variables Autonomy (1.89), Environmental Mastery (0.34), Personal Growth (0.60), Positive Relation (-0.35), Purpose in Life (- 0.89) and Self-Acceptance (1.32). All the p-values of the variables are more than the 0.05 significance level. All the male physical education students performed moderate on variables Autonomy, Environmental Mastery, Positive Relation, Self-Acceptance, Purpose in Life and high on variable Personal Growth. All the female physical education students performed moderate on variables Autonomy, Environmental mastery, Positive relation, Self-acceptance and performed high on variables Personal Growth, Purpose in life.
Conclusion: - The study concluded that male and female physical education students of different colleges of India, performed moderate on variables Autonomy, Environmental mastery, Positive relation, Purpose in Life, Self-acceptance and high on Personal Growth.