Relationship between Quality of Life, Hardiness,Self-efficacy and Self-esteem amongst Employed and Unemployed Married Women in Zabol

Objective: examining the interrelationship between quality of life, hardiness, self- efficacy and self-esteem among working (professional and non-professional), and non-working married women has motivated the researcher to launch this study. method: the samples in the present study consisted of 250 married employed women and 250 married unemployed women in the age range of 24-41 years old belonging to lower, middle, and upper socioeconomic status groups, with educational qualification of 10±2 and above and having at least one school child. stratified convenience sampling technique was used for the selection of the sample. the world health organization -quality of life (who qol) – bref, the personal view survey (pvs), the general self-efficacy scale (gse), the coopersmith self-eesteem inventory (csei) and demographic questionnaire sheet were chosen for collection of the data. results: obtained pearson r values revealed significant positive interrelationship between quality of life, hardiness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem in the whole sample, within the subgroups of professional and non-professional employed and unemployed women. obtained pearson r values revealed significant negative relationship between employment and the above variables in women. conclusion: it indicates that women with higher quality of life score rank also higher on hardiness, self-efficacy, and self-esteem and vice versa.