Mental Health and Self-Efficacy among Working and Non-Working Women:A Comparative Study

The present study was aimed to study the mental health and self efficacy in working and non-working women. Objectives of the study were to study the effect of mental health on self efficacy among selected respondents. A sample of 100 respondents of 50 working and 50 non-working women was collected from Bangalore urban area. Working women sample was collected from three different schools. Simple random technique was used to collect the information. A questionnaire developed by Jagadism and Srivastava (1983) was used to measure the mental health status of the women. The scale access the mental health in six dimensions. Such as Positive self evaluation, Perception of reality, Integration personality, Autonomy, Group oriented attitudes and Environmental mastery by cauterizing in to very good, good, average, poor, and very poor mental health. The Self efficacy was assessed by using self-efficacy scale developed by Sud et al. (1998) and was categorized in to high, moderate and low level of seff efficacy. Findings revealed that irrespective of working and non-working women, very good mental health of high percentage was seen in the age group of 30-50 years. More than half of the percent of working women and nearly 50 percent of non-working women has high level of seff efficacy followed by medium and low level. While none of the respondents has not scored poor mental health. Self efficacy and mental health status of working and non-working women was found to be statistically non significant.