Impact of Psychological Well-being on Women Career Development

Abstract

Psychological well-being on women career development have identified as a major concern relating to the working women according to the empirical and theoretical findings. The study was aimed to identify the impact of women employees’ psychological well-being on women career development. A quantitative study was done to build a conclusion to the study. Cross-sectional, an online survey was carried-out to collect primary data from 196 responses who were selected by using the simple random sampling technique. Moreover, variables based and dimension based seven hypotheses were formulated to test their impact towards dependent variable. Further, hypotheses were tested using survey techniques and result interpretations were done using descriptive statistics, analysis of multivariate assumptions, correlation studies, regression analysis etc. It was found that psychological well-being has a significant positive impact on women career development. In the same time, dimensions of psychological well-being have shown a positive impact towards women career development. Human Resource policy makers, professionals and practitioners are required to practice and provide motivational and engagement programs, enabling of equal career opportunities, eliminating discrimination practices to uplift women in their career and their potential outcomes as well as developing and restoration of their level of psychological wellbeing while enabling overall employee well-being. Female competency development programs with assigning of coaches and mentors lead women to develop in their careers. However, realistic preview on the women competencies need to be achieved to mitigate adverse effects, which are arising towards women. Finally, the researcher suggested to conduct qualitative researches using wider scope, sample and multiple variables to strengthen the current findings of the study.