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Women, Stress and Family:An Empirical Approach
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Marriage is a relationship which involves emotional and legal commitment and bonds a man and woman in a thread of love. It continues through children physical attraction, mental support and formation of strong family relationship but some times this family role passes through some difficult roue and people solve if through their understanding. In this study on attempt was made to seek out the pattern of experiential stress living with and without their has bonds and in joining and neuclear families. It was contended that ((i) variation in the level of employment would cause variation in experiential stress (ii) Women living with and without their husbands would show difference in the level of experiential stress (iii) variation in the level of stress would be caused by the family structure i.e. joint nuclear family Eighty women of employed and unemployed status and ranging between 25 to 35 years served as participants and they were arranged according to the requirements of 3-way factories design with two levels of (employment status employed/unemployed) two level of marital status (living with husband/living without husband)and two types of family spretimes (joint and neculear)i.e. 10 participants per all. Living with husband was defined to those who used to live with their husband in permanent mode their whereas without husbanded women were those whose husbands were far from their due to job condition. Home climate supportiveness scale and stress and stress management scale developed by the author were used. Doctor were analyzed by ANOVA and it was found that (i)magnitude of stress was higher in employed women (ii)women who were living without their husbands were higher on stress and (iii)nuclear family gave less stress than joint family.
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Stress, Women, Family Structure, Employment.
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