International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 12

Health style between indian and foreign male students of Delhi state

  • Author:
  • Thingnam Nandalal Singh, Naveen Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 166 to 170

*Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh

**Research Scholar, Department of Physical Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Online published on 24 February, 2016.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the health style between Indian and Foreign male students of Delhi State. To achieve the objective of the study, two hundred (N=200) Indian male students and two hundred (N=200) Foreign male students between 17 to 25 years were selected conveniently and purposely from the regular students of different Universities and colleges of Delhi State as subjects. Health Style Questionnaire (USDHHS, 1999) was used to assess physical health, social health, emotional health, environmental health, intellectual health, spiritual health and occupational health of students. To determine the significant difference between the mean scores of Indian and Foreign male students on health style,‘t’ test was employed with the help of SPSS software. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Results of the study revealed that there were significant differences found on health styles variables i.e. physical health, social health, emotional health, environmental health, spiritual health, Intellectual health and occupational health. The finding reveals that foreign male students have significantly better as compare to Indian male students on health style.

Keywords

Health Style, Indian Male Students, Foreign Male Students