PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING AND PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG NONRESIDENTIAL INDIANS

The necessity of psychological wellbeing and perceived social support of nonresidential Indians had to be explored. The main objective of this study is to understand the Psychological wellbeing and perceived social support among nonresidential Indians. A sample of 400 nonresidential Indians (268 males, 132 females) of South Indians who are working in Gulf countries were selected for the study. The sample was selected by using random sampling technique. The tools used were Workplace Perma Profiler (2011) and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (1998). Personal data schedule was used to collect the information such as sex, and age. The statistical techniques used were Pearson Product Moment Correlation, t test, One-way ANOVA, and Duncan. The study found that, there was significant correlation between psychological wellbeing and perceived social support, and there was significant difference between the male and female nonresidential Indians in their Psychological wellbeing and perceived social support, males had more psychological wellbeing than females. There was no significance difference between the nonresidential Indians who belonged to different age groups in their Psychological wellbeing and perceived social support, 21-30 years aged nonresidential Indians had higher resilience than other age groups.