SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF THE SANITARY WORKERS IN PINDI BHATTIAN, DISTRICT HAFIZABAD, PUNJAB PAKISTAN

Abstract

Subjective well-being is referring to how people evaluate their life or believes that their life is going well. The present study explores the link between subjective well-being of sanitary workers and nature of their work. Research site is selected according to the nature and purpose of the study. Hedonic Treadmill theory demonstrates that, every person sets some points of happiness. When people met these points, they are satisfied, happy and looking forward to other one. Therefore, Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) Pindi Bhattian is selected as site and its sanitary workers were used as target group for data collection. There are seventeen (17) respondents were taken for the getting information through purposive sampling. Qualitative approach was used in this study, in which researcher conduct informal in depth interviews. Factors effecting on subjective well-being are income, health status, financial satisfaction, freedom of choice, importance of social relation (friends, family), leisure, religion, unemployment, and income inequality. Thus, the main factors that may potentially affect the subjective well-being of the sanitary workers are their health conditions, financial satisfaction at home, social bonding, workplace environment, religious bonding, and freedom of choice.