Assessment of self-perceived life satisfaction of marginal and small farm women in Telangana state

Abstract

In rural areas, around 80 percent of all economically active women work in the agricultural and related sectors, where 33 percent of the labor force is employed in the agricultural sector. Self-perceived life satisfaction is the extent to which people positively assess the overall quality of her life or how much does the individual enjoy their present way of living? It is a measure of wellbeing, can be assessed in terms of mood, fulfillment with interpersonal relationships and with goals attained, self-concepts, and self-perceived capacity for coping with day-to-day living. The present study is an attempt to evaluate self-perceived life satisfaction among rural farm women and to analyze the relationship between profile characteristics of farm women with their life satisfaction. Ex post facto research design was adopted to assess the self-perceived life satisfaction of rural farm women. The sample for the study includes 50 marginal and 50 small farm women, total comprising of 100 respondents were selected from two districts i.e., Nalgonda and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri through random sampling method. In the study, the results indicated that majority of the respondents were engaged in Agriculture along with Agricultural laborers as occupation, medium income group had medium family size (4-6 members) residing in pucca house. Further, the correlation analysis showed a negative and significant relationship between family size, house type and self-perceived life satisfaction while annual income was positively significant at 0.05 level of significance among marginal farm women. Occupation had positive and significant relationship, whereas family size was negatively significant with the self-perceived life satisfaction at 0.05 level of significance among small farm women.