The Role of Peer Group in alleviating the life stresses of working women

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Lecturer in Group Work Department Faculty of Social Work Helwan University

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The current study aims to determine the role of the peer group in alleviating the life pressures of working women, which represented by (social pressures, psychological pressures, and economic pressures). The current study belongs to the descriptive analytical studies that depend on collecting facts, analysing them and interpreting them to extract their significance. The social survey method was used in the intentional sample of faculty members and their assistants (females) at the Faculty of Social work, Helwan University, and their number reached (87) working women in the academic year (2020/2021) who met the sample conditions (aged between 25 and 45 years, married females, with children, in the labour force), and the size of the sampling frame reached (205) working women. The study confirmed the importance of the peer group in alleviating the life pressures of working women, and the importance of the peer group in alleviating the psychological pressures of working women came in first place, while the importance of the peer group in alleviating the economic pressures of working women came in last place.

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