2017, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Part F

Purpose: Purpose of the study was to analyze the mood state of college male and female students and comparison between them.

Material and Methods: A total of 77 students were selected randomly from two different college of Kolkata among them 14 were male and 63 were female. The average ages of the students were 25.57 year (±3.87) for male and 25.21 years (±2.40) for girls. The students were from different socioeconomic status which was a limitation factor in this study. Mood states were the criterion measure in this study. POMS Mood State Questionnaire was used as tool in this study. Mean and standard deviation were used as descriptive statistics and t-test was used to judge the significance of differences between means in this study. Only 0.05 level of significance was considered in this study. All calculations were done by standard statistical software (Excel 2007).

Results: Result revealed that male students were superior in profile mood state of lively, active, alert, zest and vigor where as female students were in superior position in energetic and care free mood states than male counterpart. The mean score for total mood states was slightly higher than the female students. Statistical calculations indicated that except the active mood state (t=2.24), all the t-values computed in this study for different mood states were statistically insignificant (p>0.05).

Conclusion: From the above findings it was concluded that there was no significant difference in profile mood states between college male and female students except the active mood state in which male were significantly higher than female students