Impact Of Job Satisfaction and Perceived Stress on Work Life Balance and Mental Wellbeing of Women Working in Cisf

Abstract

newline Women have played many roles in the military. The Forces, which for long was considered newlinea male dominated workplace, now has confident, bold women, molding into most roles and newlinesetting examples for everyone. Many women in all forces agreed that joining the armed newlineforces was a great accomplishment for them. But many women confess that managing newlinemarried life with force service is difficult. Marriage and Career can pull the women newlineemotionally and physically in two different directions, pressurizing women officers to opt newlinefor one of the two. Family generally takes precedence, as is often the case in the civilian newlineworkforce as well, though perhaps with not so much intensity. This study focuses on the newlineexperiences of female in CISF and studies the impact of Job Satisfaction and Perceived newlineStress on Work Life Balance and Mental Well Being of women. Purposive convenient newlinesampling technique was used. newlineThe sample consisted of 400 CISF lady personnel below gazette officer rank. 200 newlineparticipants were sub officers (Inspectors, Sub Inspectors and Assistant Sub Officers) and newline200 participants were serving in other ranks (Head constables and Constables). The tools newlineused were Spector Job Satisfaction Survey (1994), Cohen Perceived Stress Scale (1983), newlineWarwick Edinburgh Mental Well Being Scale (2008) and Pareek and Purohit Work Life newlineBalance Scale (2010). A quantitative analysis was employed using a correlation design, newlinemultiple regression, t-test and an ANOVA.