Comparative Study Among Working and Non-Working Women Measuring Life Satisfaction and Personality Hardiness

Abstract

The current paper seeks to make a comparison between women who are employed and those who are not regarding the concepts of life satisfaction and personality hardiness and also to understand if these two concepts relate to demographic specifics of the participants. A quantitative approach is applied in the study since 120 women have taken part, out of which 74 represent working women and 46 were non-working women. The data were collected via means of the Life Satisfaction Scale and the Personality Hardiness Scale. The researchers made use of descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, independent samples t-test, and ANOVA to assess the data. The results obtained indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between life satisfaction and personality hardiness (r=0.336, p<0.01). Working women achieve higher results in life satisfaction compared to their non-working counterparts (M=24.70, SD=4.4 and M=20.30, SD=5.6, respectively; t (118) =4.8, p<0.001). Also, working women achieve better results in terms of personality hardiness (M=17.20, SD=2.90 and M=13.70, SD=2.60 for working and non-working women respectively; t (118) =6.30, p<0.001). Regarding the factor of age, it was discovered that there is a certain relationship between age and the level of life satisfaction, while no significant results were revealed for personality hardiness.