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Study of Satisfaction of Life among Working and Non-Working Women


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Life satisfaction is an overall assessment of feelings and attitudes about one's life at a particular point in time ranging from negative to positive. The present study was conducted to measure the life satisfaction among working and non working women. A sample of 300 women (150 working &150 Non working) was drawn randomly from the population of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh . Life Satisfaction Scale developed by Sharma and Mishra (2018) was used for data collection. Mean, SD, and F ratio was computed for the statistical analysis of the data. Findings indicate that there was significant difference between working and non working women. Working women have higher life satisfaction in compare to non working women.

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Satisfaction of Life, Working Women, Non-Working Women.
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Authors

Krishna Sharma
Department of Education, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
Sujeet Kumar
Department of Education, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India

Abstract


Life satisfaction is an overall assessment of feelings and attitudes about one's life at a particular point in time ranging from negative to positive. The present study was conducted to measure the life satisfaction among working and non working women. A sample of 300 women (150 working &150 Non working) was drawn randomly from the population of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh . Life Satisfaction Scale developed by Sharma and Mishra (2018) was used for data collection. Mean, SD, and F ratio was computed for the statistical analysis of the data. Findings indicate that there was significant difference between working and non working women. Working women have higher life satisfaction in compare to non working women.

Keywords


Satisfaction of Life, Working Women, Non-Working Women.

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