The objective of this research was to investigate the leisure of woman
managers in Bangkok and the factors affecting their stress, which included personal,
economic, social support and time factors.
The investigation was divided into 2 parts. The first part contained secondary
data from the survey project,” Family and work responsibilities, health status and
marital stability of woman managers” by Chanya Sethaput and Umaporn Pataravanich
(1998). The population was 954 married woman working as middle-level managers.
Their youngest children were not over 18 years old. They were working in the
government services, state enterprises and private sectors. The second part contained
data from an in-depth interview with 7 woman managers in May 2002.Quantitative
data were analyzed by multiple regression to obtain percentage, mean and correlation.
Content analysis was employed to analyze qualitative data.
The research findings revealed that leisure did not affect stress levels of
woman managers. The factors affecting stress were age, education and relationship
with husbands. Stress increased with the age of the managers and the higher educated
group were less stressed than those with a lower level of education. Regarding
relationship with husbands, the managers who had more problems with their husbands
had higher stress than those with fewer problems.
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