A STUDY OF STRESS AMONG WORKING FEMALES IN RELATION TO THEIR MARITAL STATUS, LOCALITY AND TYPE OF JOB

The main aim of this paper was to study stress among working females. For conducting this research a sample of 250 working females was taken, out of which, 77 were teachers, 48 were working in banks, 19 were working in post offices,37 were clerks and 69 were working as nurses they have been taken. Personal Stress Source Inventory developed and standardized by Arun K .Singh, Ashish K. Singh and Arpana Singh was used .It was selected to measure the level of stress .This inventory contained 35 items. Data was collected from working females. Anova analysis of variance was used to compare the stress among females working as teachers, nurses, bankers, clerks and post office workers. ‘t' test was used to compare the stress between married working females and unmarried working females.