Development and Validation of an Instrument Measuring Stress Management of Women Micro Entrepreneurs of Kudumbashree

Abstract

Most of the people have to face stress as they have role conflicts especially for women .It is highly essential to manage stress for the smooth functioning of both homely duties and  duties at workplace. Researcher has gone through the published scale. Through a series of revisions and validation processes, identified three dimensions of  Stress Management of women micro entrepreneurs of Kudumbashree each measured with   eight, thirteen ,and seven  items for a total of   twenty eight  items. Extensive literature review was conducted to identify factors within management of stress. Pilot study was conducted to measure reliability and validity of the instrument. As a result three factors were identified. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was done to determine if the data would fit the three factor structure.