Relationship between Perceived Social Support and Work Life Balance: A Study among Working Chefs of Kollam District in Kerala

The present study was conducted to find the relationship between perceived social support and work life balance among working chefs of Kollam district. The study consists of with 80 professional chefs aged 25 to 55 years from different places in Kollam district of Kerala, the psychological tools used to assess were the multi-dimensional scale of social support by Zimet et.al (1998) and Work life balance scale by Hayman (2005). A purposive sampling method was employed to select participants for the study. Statistical tools such as spearman rank correlation and Man Whitney U test were used for data analysis, which was carried out with the help of SPSS. The results showed a non-significant relationship between Perceived social support and work life balance among Woking chefs. Additionally, there was no gender difference was found in Perceive social support and Work life balance among the chefs.