Volume 10 : Issue 10.2 (2023)

Lifestyle: A Comparative Study of College Students among Urban and Rural Areas

The purpose of the study is to compare the lifestyles of college students living in urban and rural settings; therefore the researchers sampled 180 students from each group. There are 90 urban areas students and 90 rural students in each group. Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is where the data came from. Lifestyle scale, created by Bawa and Kaur, (2012) was used with a personal datasheet to compile the research. The information gathered was analysed using an ANOVA test. 2x2 factorial design was framed. The results demonstrate that compared to their counterparts in rural regions, students from urban settings have much better lifestyle. Male and female lifestyles are vastly different, the female possess good lifestyle than the male students. Interaction between area and gender had no Impact on lifestyle.

Lifestyle, College students, Urban, Rural area

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