Religiosity and its Relation with Subjective Well-being among Working Women

The present study ascertained the relationship between religiosity and subjective well-being among working women of Kashmir. The sample of the study consisted of 150 working women from different areas of Kashmir. They were working in different departments (education, health, social welfare and banking). The tools used for data collection were self made general information schedule, religiosity questionnaire (self made) and subjective well being scale developed by Sell and Nagpal. The results were analyzed by computing mean, SD and coefficient of correlation by using SPSS. The results of the study show that there exists a positive yet significant correlation between religiosity and well-being (r=.61), negative and significant correlation between religiosity and ill-being (r=-.28) and positive and significant correlation between religiosity and overall subjective well-being (r=.48). Keywords : Religiosity, working women and subjective well-being