Psycho-Social Correlates of Health and Quality of Life among Women:A Multivariate Study

This study aimed to investigate the relationship among Spousal- violence, Assertiveness, Social- Support, Health and Quality of Life. It was also assumed that the different mediated variables such as Age, Type of family, working status, income, and birth- order would be differently related with Health and Quality of Life. A total of 200 women participated as respondents. The selection of females was done from U.P. with the help of simple random sampling. The CMI health questionnaire by Wig, Prasad and Verma (1983) was used to assess health status of the women. Quality of Life scale constructed and standardized by Moudgil and Verma was used, In order to measure spousal violence, violence scale by Sushma Pandey was used. Social-support scale by Nehra, Kulhera and Verma was used. Assertiveness Scale by Kaur and Mehta was used on the selected sample. Some mediated variables like Age, Type of family, Working status, Income level and Birth- order were coded. The data were analyzed by using Pearson's product moment method to see the correlation among these variables. Results revealed that Spousal violence, found to be positively correlated with physical and psychological illness , whereas negatively correlated with Quality of Life. Assertiveness and social support were found negatively related with physical and psychological illness, whereas positively correlated with Quality of life. The other mediated variables like age, type of family, and working status were found to be associated significantly with spousal violence, assertiveness, socialsupport, health, and Quality of life, Where as birth order, and income level were not found to be associated significantly.