Abstract
Promoting positive cognitions has been the quest for psychologists since the psychology has been pre-fixed with the very term positive. To be optimistic is one of the greatest strength for having positive cognitions which is expected to promote feeling of well-being within an individual. Thus, with positive thinking one can achieve the higher level of happiness. Particularly, working women is one of the groups which have been expected to perform multiple roles with efficiency. They have to meet expectations of each and every family member; even then, if they are working they are expected to be equally competent on professional front as well. Therefore it was worth full to conduct a study on working women to access their optimism and strength of its association with happiness for them. The study was carried out on a sample of 130 working females. The results from the statistical analysis revealed that happiness was strongly associated with optimism. Results also indicated that, working women those who scored high on happiness were also found high on optimism as compared to those who fall on the lower side on both the positive attributes.
Highlights
The two groups of working women would significantly differ on happiness and optimism
RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS The results of statistical analysis for the present investigation has been presented with the help of tabulation which shows the descriptive statistical values with the help of Table – I, Table – II shows the Product moment correlation coefficient results and results of mean comparison are represented with the help of Table - III for the said variables. It is evident from the mean values that for happiness obtained scores are falling on the higher side (M=2.93; SD=1.56)
Which means that majority of government teachers and bank employees comprises the present sample experience more happiness associated with their optimism occupational demand
Summary
On the basis of provided conceptual description and literature review regarding optimism and happiness main objectives of the present study are: To access the strength of association between optimism and happiness among working women. To study whether the group differences exist for happiness and optimism among women working in public sector banks and schools. The two groups (bank employees and school teachers) of working women would significantly differ on happiness and optimism
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