Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Anxiety among women from Coimbatore city

Sonia Laishram, Priya. M

Abstract :

Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease about something with an uncertain. It is one of the most common psychological problem in the current world due to technology change, life style changes, job and many other environmental changes. It is much more common problem for women than it is for men. While this may be due in part to cultural and societal traditions and expectations, it is also due to the chemicals that make up our bodies and the myriad of physical changes that occur in women’s bodies and not in men’s. Anxiety is totally different for working and non–working women because their responsibilities were vary from each other. Keeping this in mind, present study has focused to evaluate the level of anxiety among working and non–working from Coimbatore through convenience and random sampling method. A total of 77 women were selected for the present study. The standardized tool of comprehensive anxiety test by Bharadwaj, Dr. H.Sharma and Dr. M. Bhargava was used to assess the anxiety levels. The results revealed that working women expressing higher anxiety compared to non–working women. The working women also expressed that they are feeling heterogeneous mixture of anxiety symptoms which is affecting their daily life. This study also suggests that to find out the risk factors of high anxiety among working women and could be done in further studies.

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ANXIETY AMONG WOMEN FROM COIMBATORE CITY, Sonia Laishram, Priya. M INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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