A Study of Family Stress among Non-Working Married Male and Female: A Special Reference with Rural Area of Patna
The present age has been called the age of stress and strain. Stress is defined as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it”. The study seeks to assess the stress level among Non-Working married Male and female. Today every individual is stress prone. It was assumed that there will be no significant difference between married male and female when family stress is taken as a dependent variable and no significant difference in family stress between non-working married male and female separately. 200 married, 100 male and 100 female were the samples for the investigation. Family stress inventory, by Dr. Abha Rani Bisht (Hindi) was used. It was found that there was no difference in family stress between in married male and female. Further concluded that there was no difference in family stress of married non- working male and female when studied separately under joint influence of sex and age.