This document presents the protocol for a study on life satisfaction among employed mothers in Dharan Municipality, Nepal. The study aims to assess life satisfaction and its association with socio-demographic variables and compare satisfaction between organizations. It will use a descriptive cross-sectional design with 100 randomly selected mothers from schools and a hospital. Data will be collected using a validated questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study aims to contribute to understanding employed mothers' life satisfaction and factors influencing it.

1. WELCOME TO THE
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PROTOCOL
PRESENTATION
Presented by
Group six
10/30/13

2. Title
LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG
EMPLOYED MOTHERS IN THE
SELECTED ORGANISATIONS OF
DHARAN MUNICIPALITY.

3. Introduction
• Life satisfaction is widely considered to be
central aspect of human welfare and is not
merely a judgment about one’s life.
• For it is widely thought to involve
affirming, endorsing, appreciating or being
pleased with one’s life.1

4. Introduction cont….
• Life satisfaction is defined as “a global
assessment of a person’s quality of life
according to his or her chosen criteria.”
• Satisfaction of life depends not only on
what people have, but on criteria that people
choose themselves and how they judge their
own achievements.2

5. Introduction cont….
• The criteria and reference standards are a
personal choice and there largely influenced
by social, cultural and religious traditions of
a group.2

6. Rationale for the study
• Women comprise more than half of the
national population of our country.
• Hence the development of any country is
inseparably linked with the status of
development of women.2
• More over when a women become a mother
her responsibility is added up.

7. Rational Cont…
• Mothers who are working are not happy
leaving their child at such young age. They
feel guilty and anxious and their anxiety is
transmitted to the child. The mother will
phone ten times a day to find out what is
happening and try to give instructions
over the phone. This can make the whole
family develop neurotic tendencies.4

8. Rationale Cont…
•
It, therefore, becomes the role and
responsibility of scholars, educationists,
socialists, media and voluntary agencies also to
act as catalyst, an agent of change to cause
stir in the minds of men and storm in the
minds of women.

9. Cont……..
• The investigators from experience had
seen more working mothers aged
between 20 and 60 years were finding
difficulty in coping up with work family
conflict due to stress. They are
following defective coping strategies in
dealing with work family conflict. So
there is a need to assess life
satisfaction.

10. Objectives
• To assess the life satisfaction among the
employed mothers.
• To assess the association between life
satisfaction and selected socio-demographic
variables.
• To compare the life satisfaction among the
employed mothers in the selected
organisations.

11. Hypothesis
• There is no significant association between
the life satisfaction and the selected sociodemographic variables.
• There is no significant difference between
the life satisfaction among the working
mothers of the selected organisations.

12. Variables
• Independent variable
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Age of mother
Religion
Educational status
Type of family
Family size
No. of children
Family income
Occupation of the
respondent
– Hours of work
– Occupation of
respondent’s husband
• Dependent
variable
– Life satisfaction

13. Measurement of
variables
• Age of mother:
– completed years in the last birthday.
• Educational status:
– Upto SLC
– Intermediate
– Bachelor and above

14. Cont….
• Type of family:
– Nuclear
– Joint
• Family income
• Working hours:
- Per week

15. OPERATIONAL DEFINITONS
•
Life satisfaction:In this study life satisfaction
refers to the overall satisfaction enjoyed in life by
women in the context of their multiple role
performances which is assessed by modified life
satisfaction scale.
• Selected organisations: It refers to BPKIHS and
all the secondary level schools of Dharan
municipality.
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16. Operatinol def. Cont…
• Employed mothers: Employed mother
refers to those who are currently working
as a nursing staffs in BPKIHS and those
mothers working as a teacher in the
schools.

17. Literature review
• A study conducted by Jan M in Kashmir
India depicts that women have average
level of life satisfaction at all age levels.
It is found that with an increase in age,
the overall life satisfaction decreases;
whereas, with an increase in personal
income, the over all life satisfaction
increases. Moreover, with an increase in
family income, the over all life satisfaction
of women also increases.1

18. • A study conducted by mameen S
showed that nearly two thirds of the
rural mothers were satisfied in their
life.

19. Conceptual framework

20. Research Methodology
• Research design
– Descriptive cross-sectional
• Study area
– BPKIHS and selected secondary level
schools of Dharan
• Population
– All the employed mothers working in the
schools and as a nursing staff in BPKIHS .

21. Cont…
• Sample size: 100
• Sampling technique
– Population proportionate simple random
sampling.

22. Cont…
• Inclusion criteria
– Who are available during the period of
data collection.
– Those with full time employment in the
organisation for a minimum period of 12
months.

23. Cont…
• Exclusion criteria
– Who are single mother.
– Those who are having any illness
(physical and mental)

24. Research instrument
Self developed life satisfaction
questionnaire based on literature review.
• Technique of data collection:
self administered semi-structured
questionnaire

25. Instrument Cont….
– Each domain containing 6 items including
2 negative items in each domains.
• The scale regarding life satisfaction
comprises 24 items under 5 responses i.e.,
strongly agree, Agree, neither, disagree,
strongly disagree coded as 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
respectively for positive items and 1, 2, 3,
4, 5 respectively for negative items.

26. Interpretation
• High level of life satisfaction- 91
and above
• Average level of life satisfaction- 61
to 90
• Low level of life satisfaction- 31 to
60

27. Cont…
• Validity
The tool will be translated to nepali
version by the experts and again
translated to english version.
– Content validity will be maintained by
taking feedbacks from various experts
of different fields.
– Pilot study will be done prior to the main
study.

28. Data analysis
Descriptive statistics will be used to explain
about the variables.
Inferential statistics (Chi Square test) will
be used to show the association between
the variables.

29. Ethical issues
• Permission from the concerned authorities will
be obtained. An informed consent will be
obtained from the research subject. The
information obtained will be kept confidential
and will be used for research purpose only.

30. Delimitation
• Since the study will be done from the
selected organisation it cannot be
generalised to the employed mothers of
the other organisations.

31. Budget
Items
Amount
Construction of tool
1000
Photo copies
8000
Statistical analysis
5000
Computer assistant
2000
Stationary, printing and
binding
Research assistant
5000
Miscellaneous
2000
Total
25,000
2000

32. Time Plan
1st
month
Finalization of
the proposal
Pilot study
Data collection
Data analysis
Report writing
Dessimination
2nd
month
3rd
month
4th
month
5th
month
6th
month

33. Consent form
• Consent form.docx

34. References
1. Jan, M., Masood, T.(2008, vol 2, issue 1).An Assessment
of Life Satisfaction among Women. International Journal
for Studies on Home and Community Science.
2. Melies, A.L.,Douglas, M.K., Eribes, C., Shih, F.,
Messias, D.K.,(1996). Employed Mexican women as
mothers and partners: valued, empowered and
overloaded. Journal of Advanced nursing ;23:82-90.

35. 3. Singh,Y.G.(Feb 2012;volIII).ISSUE-29.Life Satisfaction
of School Teacher in relation to General
Demography.International Referred Research Journal,
ISSN- 0975-3486, RNI-RAJBIL 2009/30097.
4. Basavaraj,A.U.(2010).Unpublished dessertation protocol.
ASSESSMENT OF LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG
WORKING MOTHERS”.

36. • questionaire.docx

37. Any
queries??????????

38. Thank you
for your
patience listening