Self-Esteem Body Image And Self-Consciousness Among Women After Rejection Of Marriage Proposals

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the phenomena of marriage proposals rejection among working and non-working women. It is hypothesized that there is significant difference in self esteem, body image and self consciousness of working and nonworking women after rejection of marriage proposals. The sample was comprised of (N=170) women from which (n=79) was working women and (n=91) was nonworking women. Sample was recruited by using snowball sampling technique. Mix method research design was used in this study. The major tools of this study include Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES) by Rosenberg (1965), Body Image Scale (BIS) by Moeen, Muazzam & Zubair (2013) Self-consciousness Scale revised (SCS-R) by Scheier & Carver (1985). The findings showed that body image, proposals rejected by self, number of siblings, younger married sisters, low designation and old age are a predictor of proposals rejection faced by women. The other findings revealed that there is non-significant difference in self esteem, body image and self consciousness among working and non-working women after rejection of marriage proposals. It was also explored that there was non-significant relationship in self esteem, body image and self consciousness among women.