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Abstract Teaching as a profession has changed the very attitude and perception of the role of future educators in our society. Teacher trainees irrespective of whether they are studying in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in teaching, require various skills to be able to become facilitators in the future. The present study has been conducted with an aim of finding correlation between demographic variables of age, marital status, type of institute and working status with the aspect of well-being. A total of 134 trainee teachers, from both types of institutes (government and private),were administered the Ryff scale on psychological well-being. Findings were calculated using ANOVA and t-test within the groups and between the groups on different demographics. One significant finding was t-test 0.040 indicating high well-being among trainees of a graduate teacher training programme as compared to trainees in an undergraduate teacher training programme, indicating that exposure and experiences in life contribute towards wellbeing. Findings on ANOVA revealed significant mean differences in two dimensions of wellbeing which are Autonomy, Personal Growth and overall well-being scores among trainees irrespective of their training programmes. However findings on the sample distribution indicate no significant correlation between wellbeing and age. Wellbeing needs to be looked at from psychological demographics like family life, social support and self-awareness that can bring about the much required change in the future educators.