Depression, anxiety and social support among working and non-working women

Pages: 900-904
Rupali Joshi (Department of Psychology, Uttrakhand Open University, Haldwani )

The role of women in the society is constantly questioned and for centuries women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male oriented. Today number of women are successful in politics, technology and business etc. There is no profession today where women are not working. The sample consisted of 30 working and 30 non working women. Social Support scale by Arora and Kumar (1998), Modified Hindi version of Beck Depression by Arora and Prashant (1988) and Free Floating Anxiety Scale by Tripathi and Rastogi (1986) were used. There was no significant difference between working and non working women in anxiety and depression and social support. Anxiety was found to be correlated among working women in the areas of emotional support, informational support, companionship support and overall social support. Anxiety was not found to be correlated with any type of support among non working women. Depression was not found to be correlated with any type of social support among working women. Depression was found to be correlated among non working women on the areas of emotional support, companionship support and over all social support. Depression was not found to be correlated with informational support.