2.2. Participants
A group of 717 students, 402 males and 315 females, from four schools of Pondicherry University took part in the study. Students belonged to three age groups: 60.8% in the 21–22 year old age group, 30.8% in 23–24 year old age group, and the remaining 8.4% belonged to the 25–26 year old age group. About 45% of the students had one sibling while 44.6% had two or more siblings. About 10%of the students were the only child to their parents. Approximately an equal number of students were enrolled in Semester II (48.1%) and Semester III (51.9%) subjects.Theywere enrolled in Science (29.3%), Humanities and Social Sciences (31.2%) and Management (39.5%) courses.