Emotional competence of working and non-working women

Being emotionally competent is needed for lowering stress levels in every individual's daily life. It obviously enhances the quality of life of the individual. The present study attempts to examine the emotional competence of working and non-working women from the urban and rural areas of Dharwad Taluk. A total of 120 working and non-working women were recruited for the study who were administered Emotional Competence Scale (Bharadwaj and Sharma 1995). Personal information schedule developed by the researcher was used to know the personal information regarding respondent's age, caste, education, family type, family composition and total monthly income. The results revealed that emotional competence was higher in both urban employed and non-employed women. Rural employed and non-employed women were incompetent with their emotions.