A comparative study on depression among working and non-working women in Rewa district

Abstract

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being. This mood disorder is becoming more common among middle aged female population and especially the factors associated are unique in this population. The results depicted in the table also highlight that one year and life time stress is also significantly correlated with ill health thus indicating the greater number of the life stress experienced by person the symptom score of health is also found to be greater in the person. Both life stress and symptom score of health are found to be positively related with each other. Depression and symptom score of health also yield a positive relationship (r= .31 p