Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2015

PSYCHO–SOCIAL WELLBEING OF MID AGE INDIAN WOMEN OF DIFFERENT SOCIETAL LIFESTYLE

Deboshree Koner, Sagarika Bandyopadhyay, Arup Gayen

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 Psychosocial state of mind is a positive status creating a sense of wellbeing that enables a person to  function effectively within the society. Women’s mid age crises are mostly related to psychosocial attributes that demands investigation in Indian society. Objective: To compare the status of psychological and social wellbeing of mid–age women of India categorized into three groups on the basis of societal lifestyle. Method: Study  area: Burdwan district in West Bengal, India. Subjects: 45 mid–age women belonging to three different groups, namely  House wives (GH), Active Women (GA) and Working Women (GW,) ranging the age between 35 and 55 years served  as subjects of the study. Criterion measures: To obtain data for psychological and social wellbeing standard questionnaire retrieved by Ryff, C.D. and Corey Lee M. Keyes (2012) were used. Statistics used: Descriptive statistics and oneway ANOVA were used. Level of Significance was set at 0.05. Results: The F–value of psychological and social wellbeing among three distinct Indian women’s groups were 2.814(>0.05) and 5.604 (<0.05) respectively. In this study, it was  revealed that significant difference exists between GA and GH; GW and GH so far as social well–being of women are  concerned. However, insignificant difference was observed between GA and GW. Conclusion: The present study observed that the state of social well–being of physically active women and working women are significantly better than  house wives; however, in psychological well–being insignificant difference exists among three groups under study.  

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Deboshree Koner, Sagarika Bandyopadhyay, Arup Gayen PSYCHO–SOCIAL WELLBEING OF MID AGE INDIAN WOMEN OF DIFFERENT SOCIETAL LIFESTYLE Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 5 May 2015


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