Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Amita Mor ¹, Jatesh Kathpalia ², Rashmi Tyagi ³, Vinod Kumari ⁴

Affiliations
1 Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Sociology, College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN
2 Assistant Scientist, Department of Sociology College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, CCS HAU, Hisar Haryana, IN
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, CCS HAU, Hisar Haryana, IN
4 Professor & Head, Department of Sociology College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, CCS HAU, Hisar Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study was carried out in the Hisar and Nuh districts of Haryana state in 2020 among 256 aged women living in urban and rural areas. The objectives of the study were to know the nature and extent of social problems faced by elderly women and to know the nature and extent social problems among the elderly women along with socio-economic factors associated with social problems. Twelve types of social problems were explored. The results made it abundantly evident that Hisar (65.60 percent) and Nuh (40.60 percent) districts had the 'medium' level of social difficulties among the majority of elderly women living in urban areas The extent of social problems was found 'medium' among most of the elderly women living in the rural area of Hisar (57.80%) and Nuh districts (35.90%). The overall extent of social problems was 'high' for 12.50 and 42.20 per cent in Hisar and Nuh districts, respectively. The findings stated that the percentage of status of relationships of the respondents with family members was 'average' (41.40%). A maximum number of the respondents (45.70%) were of the view that their selfstatus, deteriorated after attaining the age of 60 years (45.70%).Highly significant association was observed between social problems and age of the aged women from a rural area (χ²=44.99**) and significant in urban areas (χ²=09.44*) while a significant association was found between the education of the respondents from rural areas and level of social problems (χ²=12.73*).

Keywords

social problems, elderly women, urban area, rural area

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Amita Mor ¹, Jatesh Kathpalia ¹, Vinod Kumari ², Rashmi Tyagi ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Sociology, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana ., IN
2 Department of Sociology, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted on the bases of cultural zone Hisar from Bagar and Nuh from Ahirwati. Asample of 64 old-aged women from urban and rural areas of each district was taken to make a total sample size of 256 oldaged women respondents. The objectives of the study were to know the nature of psychological problems and the level of psychological problems along with socio-economic factors associated with psychological problems. The psychological problems among elderly women were found significantly (p ≤0.01, Z = 7.69) higher in rural areas (40.45). The level of association was found 'high' among the elderly women having 'large' family size (47.8%) in urban areas. In rural areas, a significant association was found among the elderly women having 'small' family size (34.4%) with a Chi-square statistic 2 = 49.52 at = 0.01 level. The level of association between age and geriatric scale was found 'high' (53.7%) among the elderly women having 'large' family size living in rural areas.

Keywords

psychological problems, social problems, aged women, rural areas, urban areas

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