Volume : 6, Issue : 7, July - 2017

Psychological well -Being among Female Professionals

Dr. Mamta Chauhan

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><b style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Background </span></b><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Women are participating in every profession with men. In order to fulfill the career and Family demands, they undergo a lot of mental stress and confusion .This has adverse effect on their Family atmosphere and particularly on their well being. <b>Objective:</b> The aim of this study was to assess the Psychological well being of Female Officers in Rajasthan. <b>Method</b>.This study was conducted on 60 Officers of Rajasthan Administrative services/Rajasthan Accounts Services, 60 Female Doctors, 60 Bank Employees and 60 Lecturers. Psychological well being was measure with Self esteem test by Warr and Jackson(1982)¹,Self rating Depression Scale adopted from Warr and Parry (1982⁾².Positive and Negative affect test adopted from Warr, Barter and Brownidge(1983)³.<b> Happiness </b>from Gurin, Veroff and Feld⁴,<b>Life Satisfaction Scale</b> developed by Adrews and Withey(1974)^{5 ,}<b>Self Rated Anxiety</b>: adopted from Warr, Cook and Wall(1979)^6&nbsp;and<b>Pleasure and Strain on previous day </b>adopted from Warr and Payne(1982)⁷<b>Results</b>: It was found that four groups of Female professionals differ significantly on anxiety, negative affect, Feeling Pleasure, feeling emotional Strain and Happiness. They do not differ significantly on life Satisfaction, Positive Self esteem and Positive affect.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>