1Lecturer, Govt. College of Nursing, BIMS, Belagavi;
2Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Belagavi Road, Dharwad, India
3Professor & HOD, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Belagavi Road, Dharwad, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Sunanda G. T. M. Sc(N), PhD, RN, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Dharwad Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Belagavi Road, Dharwad-580008, India, Phone: 9611814496, Email: amogh_aniketh@yahoo.com
Online published on 9 October, 2018.
Farming is associated with unique set of stressor that include unpredictable environmental, financial and social impact are felt serious reduction in income for farmer and subjective well-being is an alternate measure of poverty and deprivation among farmers
To assess the level of subjective well-being of farmers,
The study used convenient sampling technique and collected data from 100 farmers, by using interviewing method. The tools used were (i) Socio-demographic data sheet (ii) Subjective wellbeing scale. The data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics.
The findings shows that, 65% of the farmers had medium level of subjective wellbeing, 22% of them had low level of subjective wellbeing and 13% farmers had higher level of subjective wellbeing with the overall median score of 51.50. and there is a statistically significant association found between the level of subjective well being and socio demographic variable such as amount of debt's and crop failure at the level of p<0.05.
The study results recommended that policies in the future aimed at addressing deprivation of low subjective well-being of farmers who depend on the agricultural labour as a livelihood strategy.
Subjective well-being, farmers, agriculture
