Effect of Locale and Family Type on Anxiety among Working and Non Working Women of Chandigarh

Abstract

Anxiety has been considered by the authors for centuries. Although, anxiety was and is always with people and although people have always faced it and felt it inside themselves, they still don't have a good knowledge of its nature. Anxiety is found in both men and women. But the ways both face it are totally different. Women face more anxiety as compared to men. The major aim of present investigation was: to study the anxiety between working and non working women, to study and compare anxiety between women belonging to rural and urban area and also in nuclear and joint family system. For the Present Investigation Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale was used. The study was conducted on 200 women selected on the basis of random sampling. The result indicated that anxiety among working and non-working women were significant at .05 level (t=2.06) and the t-value (t=1.26) of women belonging to joint and nuclear family system shows no significant difference at .05 level. t-value (1.78) shows that there is no significance difference found between anxiety among women belonging to urban and rural areas. it shows that any particular area does not related with the anxiety of women. Both the women belonging to urban as well as rural area are anxious.