• Dr. Roshni James
• Chandni Gupta
• Chandni pd

In India, dual career couples face many stressors due to their demands of balancing work and family. As the number of dual-career couples continues to rise, it is increasingly apparent that they face unique challenges as they try to balance family matters while pursuing demanding careers. Moreover, the stressful experience is an overriding concern of dual career living. Dual career couples must cope with the changes in their lifestyle. The aim of this research paper is to study stress and coping mechanisms among dual career couples. The study is to find out how various job related stress factors like Workload, Time pressures & deadlines, Repetitive & boring work, Lack of career development, Lack of job security affects stress levels of dual career couples and tries to explore the variation of role stress among working couples across demographic variables like gender, experience groups and also coping mechanisms used by these couples to manage their work and family life. The data for this study was collected from 100 dual career couples of different companies working in different areas and domains across India. The study we also came to know that most of the respondents get appropriate spousal support from the partner. Well, most of the respondents show effects of stress on reduced work effectiveness. When it comes to organizational support to combat stress most of the times respondents get a clean & peaceful working environment.

: Dual career couple, Stress, Coping mechanisms

"A study on stress and coping mechanisms among dual career couples", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.e216-e228, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108511.pdf

"A study on stress and coping mechanisms among dual career couples", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppe216-e228, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108511.pdf