Abstract

The present study was aimed to explore the relationship of social support and sex role orientation with quality of life in senior citizens The sample comprised of 400 senior citizens with equal number of educated males and females 200 each The analysis revealed that for the male s sample social support explained the maximum variance 5 followed by femininity 4 in quality of life In all these variables have accounted for 9 of the variance In female s sample only social support has contributed 5 of variance Further t-test has revealed the superiority of males in masculinity femininity and quality of life and female s superiority on social support