M. Sathya and S. Gayatridevi
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
Women face problems or challenges in their day to day life either socially or physically.
Midlife, the period of the lifespan between younger and older adulthood, has been
described as a period of transition in women’s lives. Women identified the most
challenging aspects of midlife as changing family relationships, re-balancing work/
personal life, re-discovering self, securing enough resources, and coping with multiple
co-occurring stressors. Body pain and Insomnia are the remnants of this age of high
demand and stress. This paper attempts to understand the moderating effect of hope
in the relationship between insomnia and body pain intensity among Working Women.
one hundred and seventeen working women from various fields were selected through
random sampling and administered by the Insomnia Scale (Croenlein et al., 2013),
Brief Pain Inventory (Cleeland,1994) and the Adult Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991).
Structural Equation Model indicated that hope moderated the relationship between
Insomnia and Body pain issues. The higher the intensity of pain experienced, higher is
the level of insomnia, and lower the hope
.