Identity consistency and General Well-Being in college students

The study explored the relationship between Identity Consistency (IC) and General Well-Being (GWB) of the college students of Kolkata. The sample comprised of 65 (33 males, 32 females) college students. They were administered IC scale [prepared after Suh’s (2002) method] in order to obtain an index of IC and GWB was assessed using the PGI GWB Scale (Verma & Verma, 1989). For the present sample, as no significant difference have been found between males and females in any of the variables involved (i.e., IC and GWB), the two groups have been pooled together for further analyzes. Further statistical analyzes were done using correlation coefficient and linear regression. Results indicated that, IC has a significant positive correlation with GWB. Also, it was found that IC acts as a significant contributory variable for GWB.