Quality of Life among Widows | The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy

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Comparative Study

| Published: December 25, 2015

Quality of Life among Widows

Asst. Professor, Post Graduate Department of Studies in Psychology, Maharani\'s College for Women, Mysore Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr. S. P. Melkeri ,

Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Gulbarga University Gulbarga ,Karnataka Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr. Ashok Holkar

Asst. Professor, Government Arts First Grade College, Bangalore, Karnataka Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.172/20150301

DOI: 10.25215/0301.172

ABSTRACT

This paper gives an overview of the current status of widows quality of life for assessment of widows quality of life scale used reliable and validated scale by B.L. Dubey, Padma Dwivedi, S.K. Verma Social Scientist, post Graduate medical Institute, Chandigarh ,India. Test was administered to a random sample 200 in different age, domicile and, literacy group widows from Mysore. For analysis used relevant statistical tool like mean, standard deviation t-test. The findings of the study reflects that , the working widows have better quality of life than the others, and another important findings that those are literate they also have better quality of life than the illiterate widows.

Keywords

Widows, Quality Of Life, Occupation And Society

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How to cite this article:

C Jamadar, S Melkeri, A Holkar. (2015). Quality of Life among Widows. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3 (1), DOI: 10.25215/0301.172, DIP: 18.01.172/20150301