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Comparative Study
| Published: August 30, 2017
Stress and Cognitive Functions of Working Women in India
Project Technical Officer, Div of Socio-behavioral and Health System research, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.087/20170404
DOI: 10.25215/0404.087
ABSTRACT
This study assessed the effects of life stress on cognitive functions in working women. In the present scenario role segregated and segmental identity of women has put them in a situation where females have to perform multiple and adapt to diverse kind of psychological environments. They are always under pressure to rearrange their traditional roles of wife, mother and home maker in order to accommodate their non traditional roles as earner. These pressures tend to predispose them to life stresses, sometimes leading to reduced psychological well being. High stress leads to cognitive dysfunctions as more attention is paid to negative aspects of life. Scores of cognitive functions viz. problem solving, focused attention, concentration & recall in low stressed women were significantly higher than these scores in high stress women. Conclusion: Cognitive functions were disrupted in case of high stress women and sharp in case of low stress women
Keywords
Life Stress, Cognitive Functions, Problem Solving, Attention, Working Women
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2017 Sharma Y & Sandhu B S
Received: June 29, 2017; Revision Received: August 22, 2017; Accepted: August 30, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.087/20170404
10.25215/0404.087
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 4, July-September, 2017