Daily stressors and coping strategies of homemakers and employed women

Pages: 127-132
Priyanka Anjan Rao (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi South Campus, Delhi)
Gopa Bhardwaj (Dean School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U. P.)
Prabhat K. Mishra (Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education, NCERT, New Delhi)

Present study focused on two broader and emerging groups of women, i.e., homemakers and employed women. Being women both the groups are subject to some obligation and restriction to deal with stressors of life. Present study aims to see the relationship between dimension of daily stressors and coping strategies in both the group homemakers and employed women. Study carried on 120 women, 60 subjects in each group. Daily stress inventory by Brantley and Jones (1989) and Coping Strategies Scale by Srivastava (2001) used for measuring daily stress and Coping respectively. Pearson product moment correlation used to find the correlations between variables. Results show significant correlation between stress and coping for both the group. This relationship is equally prevalent in both the group. It indicates the extensive need of understanding and addressing the stress and coping strategies of women by providing counseling, training, control over resources, and active participation to encounter the various stressors in their life.