1Clinical Psychologist, Holy Family Hospital, Okhla Road, New Delhi-110025
2Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, IHBAS, Dilshad Garden, Delhi-95
*Corresponding Author e-mail: grover.nav@gmail.com
Online published on 6 October, 2014.
The aim of this study was to understand the factors influencing hopelessness in college students. Three hundred and forty eight (348) male and female undergraduate students from various colleges of Delhi were selected through purposive sampling. The major tools used in the study were a Personal Data Sheet, Beck's Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire - 4th version (PDQ-4), ICPS Family Functioning Scale (ICPS-FFS) and Quality of community Life questionnaire (QOCL). SPSS 17 software was used for statistical analysis. The results revealed that there are significant correlations between hopelessness and personality disturbance, hopelessness and family functioning, hopelessness and peers relations and hopelessness and quality of community life. All the above factors except quality of community were found to be significant predictors of hopelessness.
Hopelessness, Personality, Family functioning, Peer relations, Quality of Community life
