Effect of Education on Quality of Life and Well Being

Abstract

One does not need to look far to find plenty of evidences of the influence of education on many important aspects of people’s lives.  So, if ‘happiness’ is understood in the robust eudaemonist sense of key for perfect living, then education evidently has an enormous impact. Education has become one of the clearest indicators of life outcomes such as employment, income and social status, and is a strong predictor of attitudes, wellbeing, good Quality of Life etc. Following Objectives were formed for the study: (i) To Assess and Compare Quality of Life of educated and uneducated Muslim Housewives. (ii) To assess and compare Well-Being of educated and uneducated Muslim housewife. 100 educated Muslim Housewives and 100 uneducated Muslim housewives were taken from District Aligarh. Snow Ball sampling technique was used for gathering the data. WHOQOL-BREF was used to assess Quality of life and Well- Being Scale was used to assess various well-being dimensions in both the groups. Significant Difference was found between various dimensions of quality of life and well-being of educated and non educated Muslim women of Aligarh district.