An Assessment of Life Satisfaction among Women

Jan, Muzamil; Masood, Tasia

doi:10.1080/09737189.2008.11885250

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“…Young age females were economically and personally unsatisfied as compared to higher age groups. This finding was supported by women from Jammu and Kashmir and United Arab Emirates [10][11][12][13][14]. Age is an important moderator of effect of marital status, income, health and social support upon LS.…”

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Life Satisfaction and Correlates among Working Women of a Tertiary Care Health Sector: A Cross Sectional Study from Delhi

Singh¹

2017

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IntroductionLife Satisfaction (LS) is a subjective, cognitive evaluation of an individual's life as a whole [1]. Nowadays the relationship between psychological factors and somatic health has been a growing field of research interest [2,3]. Judgments regarding satisfaction depend on comparing life circumstances against a standard considered appropriate [4]. Women comprise nearly half of the national population of any country. Hence the development of any country is inseparably linked with the status of acquired supreme significances [5]. These modern life stresses are job security, not earning enough money, disagreement with colleagues and friends and lack of personal time. However there are many more which are region and culture specific. It is of utmost importance among working women of health sector as they have inbuilt job stress. This is partly because medical service involves taking care of other people's lives therefore mistakes or errors could be costly and sometimes irreversible. It is thus expected that the morbid worries and anxieties. Safe, effective, convenient and affordable medical and health services could be achieved through the establishment and improvement of basic healthcare systems. Theory and research from field outside of rehabilitation have suggested that LS is one factor in the more general construct of subjective well being [4]. Study conducted on Iranian women through self reporting questionnaires [6] and on among old age residents of Jammu [7] have revealed the various domains of life satisfaction as health, economic, personal, social, family and job satisfaction. The process of adjustment also by its inherent nature involves active coping with internal and external satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Socio demography of an individual has been identified as an important predictor of life satisfaction and quality both by a study conducted in Northern Cyprus [8] and Poland [9]. Studies across India have been conducted among different working class women or on post menopausal women. So far, there is a paucity of literature focusing on correlates of satisfaction among health care sector females. The present study is first of its kind in an attempt to report the prevalence of life satisfaction and its socio demographic correlates among working women of health sector. Besides this, the present study also aims to report the domain specific associations with various socio demographic variables. Methodology Study design and study populationA Cross Sectional study was conducted among women staff in campus of tertiary care hospital and attached medical college of Delhi. The minimum sample size calculated to study the prevalence and correlates of life satisfaction among women in health sector came out to be 315 at 95% confidence interval (taking prevalence in females from literature as 27%) [10]. To account for non response of 10% we approached 347 working professional and paramedical staff women for a period of six months (September 2011 to June 2012) of which 345 women agreed to participate in th...

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Life Satisfaction and Correlates among Working Women of a Tertiary Care Health Sector: A Cross Sectional Study from Delhi

Singh¹

2017

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“…For seniors and the elderly, financial and physical aspects are more significant in affecting life satisfaction. Age is also related to life satisfaction, as proven by Jan and Masood (2008). With age increment, life satisfaction was found to decrease by 40%.…”

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“…For example, studies have found no significant differences in the life satisfaction scores for single, married, and divorced women (Jan and Masood, 2008). The factor for their life satisfaction is definitely varied as suggested by Kousha and Moheen (2004) who conducted a study among Iranian women living in urban areas.…”

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“…The study on life satisfaction was conducted on various samples including the elderly (Ramachandran and Radhika, 2012;Sener, 2011;Song, 1992), from adulthood to death (Hutchinson, Simeon, Bain & Wyatt, 2004), teenagers (Kong and You, 2013), university students (Mahanta and Aggarwal, 2013), women (Jan and Masood, 2008) and workers from various sectors (Adams, King & King, 1996;Jessica, Johnson, Pitt & Smyer, 2008). Nevertheless, the study on life satisfaction among middle-aged women is still not well explored in Malaysia.…”

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Marital Status, Career and Income as Indicators of Life Satisfaction Among Middle-aged Career Women in Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia

Zakaria¹,

Kadir

Baharuddin

2018

J Populasi

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Life satisfaction is a subjective construct that varies according to gender, education level, age, income, marital status, and other demographic factors. Life satisfaction is an important issue among middle-aged women. They face various responsibilities, roles and expectation at this age. The objective of this article is to identify the differences in life satisfaction among middleaged Malay women from different educational level, marital status, career and income. This study applied a survey technique, which is a set of questionnaire which consisted of sociodemographic scale and life satisfaction scale (based on Life Satisfaction Index -Short Form by Barrette and Murk, 2006). Simple random sampling and purposive sampling have been used to obtain the responses. A total of 410 middle-aged career women in Hulu Langat, Selangor have participated in this study. The finding showed that life satisfactions among middle-aged women are different depending on their marital status, career and income. This was based on the result of ANOVA. Single women and widower who are working in private sector and of low-income level reported to have the lowest life satisfaction. This finding may provide input to the planning of programs to enhance the well-being and life satisfaction among middle aged career women.

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“…Satisfaction with life may be different in terms of gender. However, few studies have investigated the particular predictors of life satisfaction for women (13), particularly in the Middle East region, and in countries with different social systems such as Iran. Thus, in the present study, QoL domains together with the individual items of the QoL and socio-demographic characteristics were used to explore whether they are determinants of life satisfaction, socio-demographic factors and all individual items of QoL.…”

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Life Satisfaction and its Determinants Among Young Iranian Women

Harris¹,

Salehi²,

Coyne³

et al. 2016

Women's Health Bull

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Background: Satisfaction with life indicates an individual's overall evaluation of life, which is influenced by a range of factors including socio-demographic characteristics, psychological issues, and life experiences. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the main determinants of life satisfaction among young Iranian women. Patients and Methods: 391 young Iranian women (18 -35 years) were recruited through cluster convenience sampling to participate in this cross-sectional study. Satisfaction with life (SwL) was used as the dependent variable. Demographic characteristics together with the individual items of the Persian version of the WHO QoL-BREF (World Health Organization quality of life questionnaire-brief version) were used as the independent variables and/or the determinants of SwL.

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An Assessment of Life Satisfaction among Women

Cited by 36 publications

References 8 publications

Life Satisfaction and Correlates among Working Women of a Tertiary Care Health Sector: A Cross Sectional Study from Delhi

Life Satisfaction and Correlates among Working Women of a Tertiary Care Health Sector: A Cross Sectional Study from Delhi

Marital Status, Career and Income as Indicators of Life Satisfaction Among Middle-aged Career Women in Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia

Life Satisfaction and its Determinants Among Young Iranian Women

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