TABLE OF CONTENT

Chapter No Titles Page

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Introduction 5

Chapter 2 Review Of Literature 6

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Chapter 3 Problem Faced By Working Women and House 7
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Chapter 4 How to Measure Stress 9

Chapter 5 (I)Research Methodology 10

(II)Research Title 10

(III)Objectives Of Study 10

(IV)Research Design 10

(V)Methods Of Data Collection 10

Chapter 6 The Proposal Model Of Stress 11

Chapter 7 Conclusion 12

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 CHAPTER.1

INTRODUCTION:

 In the middle of the 19th century there was no stress in workplace and
occupational stress grew in disturbing over the last 40 years .

 It is a general belief in many cultures that the role of women is to build and
maintain the homely affairs like task of fetching water ,cooking, rearing
children. In the traditional society, women’s role was naturally limited to the
family. Since she was bearer of occupational stress is commonly children, she
was fully occupied with her duties as a mother and home maker.

 Defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the
demands of the job exceed then capabilities, needs or resources of the
employee.

 Recently occupational stress is increasing due to globalization and global

financial crisis which is stirring almost all countries ,all professions and
all categories of workers, as well as families and societies. As a result
occupational stress becomes an essential issue in all work places.

 Stress is one of the most important things that play a major role in human life.

 Stress could be taken in a positive and a negative manner, if taken positive it

is the measure to achieve in life and taking us to the next level of life and if
taken negative, it makes people to destroy themselves at a level that is beyond
our imagination.

 Stress causes depression, leading to blood pressure, mental illness, fatigue,

anger, insomnia, heart attack, silence etc.. That affects human health in a
greater level which might lead to death of a human being.

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 CHAPTER.2

Review of literature:

(I)SANLIER AND ARPACI [18] :Studied the effect of stress on women health. Results
reveal that employed women in the stress scale have ‘a higher average sc

ore than that of the non-employed women

(ii) Hashmi et al.[19] : found that working married women have to face more
difficulties in their lives like they experienced more stress and depression as compared
to non- working married women.

(iii)Patel[30]: revealed that in pretest most of the nurses 53.3% had moderate
stess,40.0% had mild stress and 6.7%had severe stress .in posttest most of the nurses
had mild stress 73.3% and no stress 26.7%it is concluded that progressive muscle
relaxation therapy is effective in reducing the stress level of the staff nurses.

(IV)P.S.SWAMINATHAN &RAJKUMAR S:”stress levels in an organization and their

impact of employee’s behaviour(2013)”.They have a conducted a study that focused on the
level of stress among the age group, different varieties of job ,profession ,hours of work and
the influence of work environment on the degree of stress faced by employees. Stress in an
employees individual in nature.

THREE CONDITIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR WORK STRESS THEY ARE:

(i)Role overloaded

(ii)Role self distance

(iii)Role stagnation

V) D.S.R.ADAIKARAM(2016):

 “Impact of work life balance on employee job satisfaction in private sector

commercial bank of sri lanka”. this study is to satisfaction in private sector
commercial banks. Collection a total of 150 questionnaires is distributed among
the employees of different commercial bank.

 Thedata is analyzed using SPSS, tests applied correlation and regression .The
finding suggest that work life balance has a significant impact on employee job
satisfaction in private sector commercial banks of Sri Lanka.

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 CHAPTER 3

PROBLEM FACED BY HOUSE WIFE AND WORKING WOMEN IN INDIA:

 Imbalance between work and family leads to occupational stress. Imbalance

between work and family life arise due to a number of factors. various factors
are following.

(I)MENTAL HARRASMENT:

 It is an ago convention that women are less capable and inefficient in

workingas compared to men. The attitude which considers women unfit for
certain jobs holds back women.

 In spite of the constitutional provisions, gender bias creates obstacles in their

recruitment. Inaddition to this, the same attitude governs injustice of unequal
salaries for the same job the true equality has not been achieved even after 61
years of independence

(II)SEXUAL HARASSMENT:

 Today, almost all working are prone to sexual harassment irrespective of their
status, personal characteristics and the types of their employment. They face
sexual harassment on way on transports, at working places, educational
institutions and hospitals, at home and even inpolice stations when they go to
file complaints.
 It is shocking that the law protectors are violating and outraging modesty of
women. Most of the women tend to be concentrated in the poor service jobs
whereas men are in an immediate supervisory position, which gives them an
opportunity to exploit their subordinate women.

(III)DISCRIMINATION AT WORK:

However, Indian women still face blatant discrimination at their work places. they are often
deprived of promotions and growth opportunities at work places but this doesn’t apply to all
working women.

(IV)NO SAFETY OF WORKING WOMEN WHILE TRAVELING:

 The orthodox mindset in the Indian society makes it difficult for working
women to balance her domestic environment with professional life in some
families; it may not be acceptable to work after 6’o clock.

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  So many issues affect a working women because she is closely protected are
watched by her family and the society.

(V) LACK OF FAMILY SUPPORT :

 The family doesn’t support women to leave the house hold work and go to
office.
 They also resist for working till late in office which also hampers the
performance of the women and this also affects their promotion.

(Vi) INSUFFICIENT MATERNITY LEAVES:

 Insufficient maternity leave is another major issue that is faced by a working

mother. This not only affects the performance ofwomen employees at work,
butis also detrimental to their personal leave

(vii) JOB INSECURITY:

 Increased work load extremely long work hours and intense pressures to
perform at peak leaves all the time for the same pay, can actually leave an
employee physically and emotionally drained.

(viii) WORK PLACE ADJUSTMENT:

 Adjusting to the work place culture whether in a new company or not, can be
intensely stressful. Maladjustments to work place culture may lead to conflicts
with colleagues or even with superiors.
 In many cases office politics or gossips can be major stress inducers

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 CHAPTER 4

HOW TO MEASURE STRESS AMONG NON WORKING WOMEN AND

WORKING WOMEN

 Internal factors which influence your ability to handled stress include your Self
nutritional status, overall health and fitness levels, emotional well-being, your
ability to control stress through relaxation techniques or other strategies, and the
amount of sleep and rest you get
 Employers should also consider the HSE(Health&SafetyExecutive’s)
management standard for work-related stress indirect tool, the job content
questionnaire.
 The effort reward imbalance questionnaire and the Copenhagen psychosocial
questionnaire. There are also sect oral tools available, such as the EEF work
organisation assessment questionnaire.
 Self acceptance - having a positive attitude two wards oneself and one’s past
life.
 Purpose in life - having goals and objectives that give life meaning.
 Environmental mastery – being able to manage complex demands of daily life.

 Positive relation with others - having a sense continued development and self
realization.

 Autonomy - being able to follow one’s own convection.

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 CHAPTER-5

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH TITLE:

A STUDY ON LEVEL OF STRESS AMONGST HOUSE WIFE AND

WORKING WOMEN.

OBJECTIVES OF STUDY:

The main objectives of the study where stated as:

 To find out the stress level of employed women.

 To find out the stress level of unemployed women.
 To compare the stress level of employed and Unemployed women.
 To see effect of PMRT and Mindfulness breathing upon stress.
 To compare the pre and post test result of experimental and control group of
employed women after intervene

RESEARCH DESIGN:

 This study falls under descriptive techniques was used to select a sample of 300
working women of various districts.

METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION:

 The present study is based on primary data. Questionnaire was the main tool for
collecting the primary data. The questionnaire was designed way of covering adequate
and relevant sequentially and of the study.
 The data collected from the primary sources were arranged sequentially and tabulated
in a systematic manner.
 Secondary data required for the study was collected from books, magazines, journals,
newspapers, past research, reports and various webs

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 CHAPTER 6

THE PROPOSED MODEL OF STRESS

 The case study is made after a qualitative observation in a small construction

company.
 The objective of this observation include the main psychosocial risks factor,
especially stress factor.
 The quantification of the risks was made after an evaluation of all observation
papers. Every employee had to answer to some question and was observed at the
working place for one day.
 Job content work overload and work pace: Lack of variety, high uncertainty,
under use of skill work overload, machine pacing, high level of time pressure
 Control work schedule: Lack of control over workload, low participation in
decision making
 Night shifts, inflexible work schedule, unpredictable hours
 Environment Equipment: poor environmental conditions, inadequate equipment
availability
 Role in organization: Responsibility for people, role ambiguity, role conflict
 Organisational culture and function: Lack of definition of organisational
objectives, poor communication
 Interpersonal relationships at work: poor relationships with superiors, bullying
objectives or physical isolation, interpersonal conflict
 Job insecurity, low social value to work, under or over promotion
 Home-work interface: dual career problem , low support at home

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CONCLUSION

 TO successfully manage stress in every day lives.The best way to manage stress is to
prevent it. This may not be always possible.
 So,the next best things are to reduce stress and make life is easier. For this purpose
different stage management techniques like meditation,yoga,hyponosis,guided
imaginary,musclerelaxation,mindfulness,breathingetc..,should be used.
 So as to curtail the stress level which is the cause of various fatal diseases like cardio
vascular diseases, hypertension etc..,women being the prime victim especially
employed women of stress.
 Therefore their stress management is essential both in private and govt organizations.

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