A Paper on Difference of Mental Health Among Employed Women and House-Wives in Pakistan: Stress

Abstract

The paper was set to determine the level variation of stress within two type of females’ groups that is paid work and house wives of Pakistan. It was supposed that ’’A significant difference will be found between working-women and non-working women on the variable stress. The sample of 250 working and non-working-females had been taken from various commercial and residential areas of city of Karachi, Pakistan via technique of purposive sampling. This group of 250 women was divided in to two equal numbers of 125 working and 125 non working- women. Their age range was 28 years to 45 years. The Mean (M) age of the sample was 34.126 and the Standard deviation (SD) was 4.129. The permission from the respective authorities was taken adapting the proper procedure. An informed consent from these female subjects and the demographic forms had got furnished. To gauge the stress, Lovibond and Lovibond, DASS (1995) had been administered, one by one. In order to interpret and analyze the data, Descriptive statistics and t-test had been applied, through SPSS V 16. This had been the result that employed women were found prone to have stress than the counterpart i.e. house wives,  in Pakistan.

Keywords: Stress; working women; Non-Working-Women; mental health; Pakistan.