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Journal of Brain and Neurology| Volume: 2
November 05-06, 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Brain Disorders and Therapeutics
Mental Heal th and Psychology
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Domestic violence is a worldwide menace, impairing
women’s physical and mental health and quality of life.
NCRB (Crime in India, chapter 5, 2014, P- 83) reports that of
the total women population in India West Bengal accounts
for 7.5% and out of the total reported crime against women
nation wise, 12.7 % occur in West Bengal. Aim of the present
paper tries to throw some light on that impact of perceived
violence on the level of depression and quality of life of female
workers in unorganized sector of India especially West Bengal.
Methods used for the study examines the impact of three
kinds of violence (i.e. physical, sexual and psychological) among
three groups (namely Domestic Help, Informal Care Givers and
Micro Enterprise Workers) of women from unorganized sector,
on their level of depression and quality of life. Multistage
Disproportionate Stratified Random sampling Method was
followed. The final sample comprised 513 workers. Data was
collected using a Violence Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory
and Quality of Life Questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done
applying SPSS package. Result of the research can be put-up
as domestic Violence was clearly evident in all three groups of
unorganized sector. Significant mean difference was noticed
among the three groups of workers in case of psychological
violence. Interaction effect of sexual violence on quality of
life, sexual violence and age on quality of life and sexual,
psychological and physical violence on quality of life was found
to be significant. Mean difference of all three forms of violence
on depression and quality of life was noticeably significant.
To conclude the combat the evil of domestic violence,
improvement in the quality of life of economically independent
women should be prioritized focusing on their education,
increasing theminimum stipulated age limit of marriage victims
are likely to benefit from stronger legislation and police action
counselling centres and local support groups. If restoring their
loss of self-respect is an important agenda making avenues for
reappraisal easilyavailable to themshouldbe theother part of it.
Speaker Biography
Ishita Chatterjee has a number of National and International publications in reputed
journals. I have authored two books and number of book chapters in psychology.
Completed projects till date are : 1. Stress, Coping, Suicidal ideation and Meaning in
life of college students- sponsored by- University Grants Commission. 2. A project on
Stress coping, Aggression, and Mental Health Status of auto rickshaw drivers in around
Kolkata sponsored by- Indian Council of Social Science Research, Govt of India. 3. A
project on Motivating employees- sponsored by –Himadri Chemicals Pvt.ltd. Ph.D
have been submitted by three scholars under Her supervision so far. Currently guiding
four Ph.D students. She is actively involved in teaching research and development.
She pursued her Ph.D. from Department of Applied Psychology University of Calcutta,
India. She was also awarded Gold Medal for her work during her Master degree.
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Ishita Chatterjee
University of Calcutta, India
Perceived violence, level of depression and quality of life of female workers from
unorganized sector of India