Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 7, Issue 2, DIP: 18.01.044/20190702 DOI: 10.25215/0702.044 http://www.ijip.in | April - June, 2019 © 2019, Oraon. K.C, & Kumari. R; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A Psychological Study on Stress among Working and Non- Working Married Women Kali Charan Oraon 1 , Reeta Kumari 2 * ABSTRACT Stress is a part of modern life, with the increasing complexity of life, stress is likely to increase. Stress is built in the concept of role, which is conceived as the position a woman occupies in a system. Women in the modern global world have to play a dual role as a housewife and career builder. The present investigation was conducted to examine the stress among the working and non-workingwomen. It was hypothesized that working women have more stress than non- working women. In order to verify the above hypothesis a sample of 240 women were taken. From which working women (N= 120) and non-workingwomen (N= 120). were taken. To measure the stress, the stress scale developed by DR. Reeta Kumari (2014) was administrated individually to the subjects. The data were subjected to ‘t’ analysis and the major findings of the study reveal that working women’s has more stress than non- working women. The relation between working and non-working women is found significant at 0.01 levels. Similarly, non-tribal women are having more stress than tribal women. Keywords: Stress, Tribal, Non-Tribal One of the most important relationships between a man and women is marriage. It involves emotional and legal commitment that is quite important in any adult life. Husband-wife is always together and pass a large portion of their lives in each other's company. There is no doubt that the choice of marital partner is one of the most important decisions one makes in his / her lifetime. People marry for many reasons, like; love, happiness, companionship, and the desire to have children, physical attraction, or desire to escape from an unhappy situation. It involves emotional and legal commitment that is quite important in any adult life. Both are vastly different from one to another. A husband is expected to be considered as the head of the family while the wife may be expected to be the strong one, upon whom the husband can really. The couple’s financial situation can be a threat to their stress. During the early years of marriage when expensive labor saving device and domestic help are most needed, the finance condition does not allow such luxuries and the wife may want her husband to share the burden of running home. Similarly in every marriage adult requires a whole new set of relation- the in-laws. They are of different ages, which often have different interests and values. If one fails to adjust them, it is likely to lead to stains in relationship with his/her 1 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Mandar College, Mandar, India 2 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Marwari College, Ranchi, India *Responding Author Received: February 1, 2019; Revision Received: April 18, 2019; Accepted: May 1, 2019