Mental Health and Self-Efficacy of Working and Non-Working Women From Rural and Urban Area
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2011
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The study was conducted to analyse the mental health and self-efficacy of
working and non-working women from rural and urban area. The sample consisted of
90 working and 90 non-working women from rural and urban area in Dharwad district
during 2010-11. Farm women were considered as rural working women and nonworking
group as housewives. Teachers constituted working group whereas
housewives a non-working group in urban area. Mental health was measured using
the mental health inventory by Jagadish and Srivastava (1983) and self-efficacy was
measured using self-efficacy scale by Sud et al (1998). Socio economic status was
measured using socio economic status scale by Aggarawal et al (2005) in addition to
personal information. The results revealed that the working and non-working women
had average mental health in both rural and urban area. There was no significant
difference between working and non-working women on mental health. But there was
a significant difference between mental health of rural and urban women. Urban
women had better mental health than that of rural women. Age, education, income
and number of children had positively and significantly related to mental health of
working women while family size was negatively but significantly related to mental
health of working women. Most of the working and non-working women from rural
and urban area exhibited high level of self-efficacy. Social participation was
positively and significantly related to self-efficacy of working women. The study also
indicated that as number of children increased mental health of rural women also
improved. Family size was positively and significantly related to self-efficacy of
urban women. Mental health had positive and significant relationship with working
and non-working women from rural and urban area.
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Human Development