Impact of Marital Status on the Mental Wellbeing of Working Women of Kolkata

Abstract

The present study aims to explore the impact of marital status on the mental wellbeing of working women of Kolkata. 130 working
women having full time jobs (65 married and 65 unmarried) across the city of Kolkata participated in the study. The method of purposive
sampling was employed. Quantitative method of data collection was used, 2 questionnaires namely, GHQ-28 and The Warwick-Edinburgh
Mental Wellbeing Scale were administered along with a consent form and a general information schedule (including the Kuppuswamy
Socioeconomic Scale 2021). The mean score for mental wellbeing were obtained for both the groups which indicated unmarried working women have a slightly higher score than the married ones. Results of One-way ANOVA indicated that there was no significant impact of marital status on the mental wellbeing of working women.