Employment status depression and desire for social freedom

Pages: 772-774
Shweta Dixit (Department of Psychology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of the study was to see the effects of employment status on depression and desire for social freedom. In modern times two social issues is very challenging for our society; one is unemployment another is depression 100 females (50 educated employed females & 50 educated unemployed females) was selected for the study. Depression scale byKarim and Tiwari and women social freedom scale by Bhusan was chosen for the collection of data. Results declared that employment status affect the level of depression and also desire for social freedom. Significant difference was found between educated employed and educated unemployed females on the depression and women social freedom’s level. And the correlation between depression and women social freedom was 0.14 which is negligible positive correlation.