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Work-Life Balance and Mental Health of Women Managers


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Work-life balance is a challenging issue for every women manager, which touches almost every aspect of her life, including her career, family and health. The present study explores the work-life balance issues and mental health of women managers working in different sector of organizations. The sample comprises 200 Indian women managers (100 from public sector organizations & 100 from private sector organizations) working in different organizations of Delhi and NCR. Analytical strategy included descriptive, t-test, correlation and linear regression analysis on SPSS 21. Results revealed that there is a significant positive correlation of work-life balance with psychological well-being and mental health while there is significant negative correlation of work-life balance with psychological distress of women managers. In addition, the two groups differ significantly on the dimension of work-personal life enhancement, psychological distress and mental health. Implications of the study for the two groups in context of different work-environment are discussed.

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Work-Life Balance, Mental Health, Women Managers.
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Authors

Ghausia Taj Begum
Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India
Meena Osmany
Department of Psychology, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India

Abstract


Work-life balance is a challenging issue for every women manager, which touches almost every aspect of her life, including her career, family and health. The present study explores the work-life balance issues and mental health of women managers working in different sector of organizations. The sample comprises 200 Indian women managers (100 from public sector organizations & 100 from private sector organizations) working in different organizations of Delhi and NCR. Analytical strategy included descriptive, t-test, correlation and linear regression analysis on SPSS 21. Results revealed that there is a significant positive correlation of work-life balance with psychological well-being and mental health while there is significant negative correlation of work-life balance with psychological distress of women managers. In addition, the two groups differ significantly on the dimension of work-personal life enhancement, psychological distress and mental health. Implications of the study for the two groups in context of different work-environment are discussed.

Keywords


Work-Life Balance, Mental Health, Women Managers.

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