Sinha Sudhinta
Department of Psychology, S.S.L.N.T. Women's College, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2017 Jul-Dec;26(2):171-177. doi: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_70_16.
Today, women's roles are emerging differently with new commitment and career oriented as well as commitment to families. So, this in turn leads to a number of stress and strain among working women.
The aim and objective of this study was to elucidate the work-family conflict on psychological well-being experienced by working women and to determine whether social support has beneficial role in the psychological well-being of the working women.
Eighty-two women working in different professions from dual-earner family and 82 homemakers from traditional single-earner family were included in the study and assessed on the following: (1) Postgraduate Institute (PGI) Health Questionnaire and (2) PGI Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) for the assessment of well-being and social support, respectively, and data were analyzed.
Working women scored lower on PGI Health Questionnaire than homemakers, which was statistically highly significant, indicating that working women had higher psychological well-being than homemakers or nonworking women. On the assessment of PGI and SSQ, scores revealed that women in dual-earner families perceived lower social support as compared to those of single-earner families.
Employed women are more satisfied with their life than nonworking women, and the quality of home and work environments determines the impact of employment on the psychological well-being of working women in dual-earner families.
如今，女性的角色呈现出不同的特点，她们既有新的责任感且以职业为导向，同时也兼顾家庭。因此，这进而导致职业女性面临诸多压力和紧张情绪。
本研究的目的是阐明职业女性所经历的工作 - 家庭冲突对其心理健康的影响，并确定社会支持在职业女性心理健康中是否具有有益作用。
本研究纳入了82名来自双职工家庭的从事不同职业的女性以及82名来自传统单职工家庭的家庭主妇，并对她们进行了以下评估：（1）研究生医学教育与研究学院（PGI）健康问卷，（2）PGI社会支持问卷（SSQ），分别用于评估幸福感和社会支持，然后对数据进行分析。
职业女性在PGI健康问卷上的得分低于家庭主妇，差异具有高度统计学意义，这表明职业女性的心理健康状况优于家庭主妇或非职业女性。在对PGI和SSQ的评估中，得分显示双职工家庭中的女性比单职工家庭中的女性感受到的社会支持更低。
职业女性比非职业女性对自己的生活更满意，家庭和工作环境的质量决定了就业对双职工家庭中职业女性心理健康的影响。
