Psychosocial wellbeing of unmarried working women
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Date
2019
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
The collectivist culture of Asian communities embraces a significant function
in the life of unmarried women. By using the mixed method approach, present study
studied the psychosocial wellbeing of unmarried working women. Study I brings lights
upon the association between perceived stress, social support, ways of coping and
psychosocial wellbeing of unmarried working women. Through purposive sample N=
200 unmarried working women, aged between 28 to 45 years were assessed using Urdu
version of scales; Perceived Stress Scale (Tahira & Kauser,2013), Multidimensional
Perceived Social Support (Zafar & Kausar, 2015), Ways of Coping (Batool & Kausar,
2013) and Psychosocial Wellbeing (Faran & Malik, 2015). Correlational analysis
revealed that psychosocial well-being significantly and negatively correlated with
perceived stress, whereas significantly and positively correlated with social support and
ways of coping, results also showed significant correlation with demographics (age,
education, occupation). Outcomes of independent t-test showed significant difference
between perceived stress, social support, ways of coping and psychosocial wellbeing
of unmarried working teachers and unmarried working nurses. Mediation analysis
revealed that social support and ways of coping were the negative predictors of
perceived stress, whereas positive predictors of psychosocial well-being. In Study II
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was brought to use for the exploration
purpose of social experiences of unmarried working women with low well-being and
unmarried working women with high wellbeing. The sample of four unmarried working
women using convenience sampling, and data was gathered via semi-structured
interviews. Findings revealed that unmarried working women with low wellbeing
experiences negative attitude towards themselves from their families and colleagues,
and felt psychological distress and in result of that distress they socially marginalized
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themselves from social gatherings, whereas unmarried working women with high
wellbeing described their experiences as self-composed psychological wellbeing, they
tend to used social avoidance behavior in order to cope with experiences related to
their unmarried status. The qualitative part of the study enriches the findings of
quantitative study. This study enhanced the understanding of the concept of
psychosocial wellbeing of unmarried working women who are unmarried after the age
of 28, which is taken without any consideration as a natural and predictable event in the
life of each unmarried working women.