Occupational Stress, Control and Income: Their Relation With The Psychological Well-Being of Employed Women
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2006-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The main objective of this study was to examme the relationship
between occupational characteristics and psychological well-being of
employ ed women. In light of this objective, 15 organizations, 18
occupation and 180 employed women were selected by convenient
and pervasive sampling technique (150 for questioner and 30 for
interview). In order to ensure fair representation s of employed women,
they were categorized based on their geographical location (20 from
each sub-city). Quantitative analyses were used to analyze the data
obtained through the questionnaires. To investigate the relation ship
corre lation s were performed. To explore the predictive power
regressIOns analysis was used. To find out the group differences
independent sample T-test was used. Alpha value of 0.01 was used
for significance tests in this study. More over, all quantitative analysis
were done using SPSS 12.The information from the interview was
categorized in themes and analyzed using qualitative methods. Given
our findings, it seems warranted that Stress has a negative and
control has a positive significant relationship with the psychological
well-being of employ ed women but not income. Among them, Control
is a strong predictor of employed women's psychological well being.
And ages, marital status, numbers of children and educational level
have a relationship with psychological well-being of employed women.
Among them, educational level is a strong predictor of employed
women's psychological well being. There is also a difference in
psychological well-being between married and un-married employed
women i.e. married employed women have better psychological wellbeing
than unmarried employed women .More over the coping
mechanisms used by employed women are their own, not something
they got from professional support.
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Control and Income