Correlational Study of Work Life Balance, Religiosity and Psychological Well-Being in Married and Unmarried Working Women

Workplace stress is the generally focused area of stress majorly affecting balance between an individual’s personal life and professional life. This article focuses on the extent to which the working women manage work-life pressure along with maintaining their physical and emotional well-being through their engagement into religious activities most importantly. It compares the potential of work-life balance, engagement into religiosity and ability to experience the well-being amongst working married and unmarried women. To fulfill the objective, the data was collected from 100 working women with 50 each from married and un-married residing in Delhi-NCR, India. The age range of the sample was 25-45 years. The Work-Life Balance scale along with the The Centrality of Religiosity and Ryff’s psychological wellbeing scale with the 6 dimensions – Self Acceptance, Purpose of Life, Personal Growth, Positive Relations, Autonomy and Environmental Mastery to measure all the 3 variables were administered to the women. Three Parametric Statistical techniques were applied, including ancova, correlation and regression, to find out the results of comparison between all the 3 variables. The findings demonstrated a high religiosity in married women, high self- acceptance in unmarried women. There was also a negative correlation between work life balance and purpose of life, and a negative correlation between autonomy and environmental mastery. At last, only 1 variable which is purpose of life majorly impacts work life balance out of all the 7 variables taken, in the working women.