Personal growth Initiative among Undergraduate Students in Relation to Emotional Self-efficacy and General Well-being

Personal Growth Initiative is an orientation toward change and growth across life domains and is considered as a construct of metacognition, awareness and planned commitment in conditions of growth enhancement. Emotional self-efficacy is known as a perceived familiarized capacity to compact with the negative affect and it is the hierarchical process through which an individual is able to recognize, understand and describe his/her emotions. General well-being is a multi-layered concept; it is result of a dynamic balance between various aspects of life. The study was conducted to explore personal growth initiative, emotional self-efficacy and general wellbeing of undergraduate students and to analyze the relationship between personal growth initiative, emotional self-efficacy and general wellbeing. The nature of the study calls for the descriptive study. 480 undergraduate students were selected from Punjab through stratified random sampling technique. Personal growth initiative-II scale by Robitschek, self-constructed standardized emotional self-efficacy scale and general well-being scale by Dr. S.K. Verma and Ms. Amita Verma were used for data collection. For analyzing data, parametric statistical techniques were used. Study revealed that females possessed more scores in PGI, emotional self-efficacy and general well-being as compared to males. Student from science streams are much better in personal growth initiative, emotional self-efficacy and general well-being as compared to arts and commerce undergraduate students. Significant positive relationship was found between personal growth initiative, emotional self-efficacy and general well-being.