Resilience, Body Image and Self-Concept as Correlates of Post-Partum Depression Among Working and Non-Working Women of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

Abstract

The present study entitled “Resilience, Body Image and Self-Concept as correlates of Post- Partum Depression among working and non-working women of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan” was conducted to gain an insight into the correlation of Post-partum Depression with Resilience, Body image and Self-concept among working urban and non-working rural women of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. The concept of Post-partum Depression is understudied among working urban and non-working rural women. The study was conducted on 250 women out of which 125 were working urban women and 125 were non-working rural women. Standardized tools namely the Brief Resilience Scale (Ohio University,2020), Body Image Disturbance Scale (Hopwood et. al,2001) and the Self-concept scale (Mukta Rani Rastogi,1979) were used. Statistical analysis using descriptive statistics, t-test, Chi-square and Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of correlation were used. The results revealed that a major proportion of working urban women reported high levels of postpartum depression. In addition, a majority of working urban women exhibited low levels of resilience, high body image dissatisfaction and low self-concept. Correlation analysis revealed that women’s status and lower levels of resilience were found to be positively correlated. Women’s status and body image dissatisfaction of women were found to be negatively correlated. However, a positive correlation was found between the status of women and low self-concept.