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| Published: February 24, 2017

Exploring Depression and Coping Strategies among the Widowed and Divorced Working Women

Dr. Meera Manjul

Faculty Member, Life Long Learning Department, HP University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Rajender K. Premi

Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, HP University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.107/20170402

DOI: 10.25215/0402.107

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The present investigation was designed to explore the prevalence of depression among single married working women (widow and divorced) to see the relationship between tribal and non-tribal with special focus on their coping strategies. The data was collected from 100 widowed and divorced women (50=divorced; 50=widows). In both the groups of women, 25 were tribal and non-tribal women in each group. The correlational analysis was done to find out the relationship of depression, and coping strategies between the above mentioned groups. The results also indicate that depression is significantly higher among widow than the divorced participants both in case of tribal and non-tribal than the divorce tribal and non-tribal and as well the coping style is significantly better and effective in case of divorced tribal and non-tribal than the widow tribal and non-tribal. Therefore, the results indicate that better the coping style lower the depression.

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.107/20170402

10.25215/0402.107

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Published in   Volume 04, Issue 2, January-March, 2017