STRESS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF WORKING MOTHERS IN MANGALURU CITY

Abstract

Working mothers juggle many responsibilities and play many roles to maintain stability between work and family. Studies reveal that average working mothers’ puts in nearly 100 hours of work a week between the home and the office. Perceiving their responsibilities both at home and work place, most of them undergo a lot of stress. According to 2020 data from Maven and Great place to work, nearly 9.8 million working mothers reported experiencing burnout i.e., almost 30% more than working fathers. With this regard in today’s competitive world, work life balance and stress management for working women is absolutely necessary to strike a balance between professional work and personal life. This helps in reducing disharmony between official and domestic life. In this paper we analyze stress in the workplace and at home, factors creating stress and the consequences of stress for the working mothers. The present study makes a sincere effort to understand and explore strategies adopted by the working mothers to manage their stress level. A sample of 100 working mothers from Mangaluru are chosen as respondents for the study. The convenient sampling technique is used for data collection, and for the analysis of the data SPSS has been used. The reliability test, percentage analysis and Friedman test were used to analyze, compare and interpret the data.