Abstract:
The present study investigated life satisfaction, personality and coping behavior of women entrepreneurs. The sample consisted of 100 adult respondents of which 50 were women entrepreneurs and 50 were non- entrepreneur. The Bengali version of the “Life Satisfaction Questionnaire” (Illyas, 2001), “Personality Inventory Questionnaire”, (Raman & Eysenck,1980) and Coping Scale (Huque,2004) was used for investigating life satisfaction, personality and coping behavior of women entrepreneur and non-entrepreneur. A personal information form was also used to gather respondent’s socio-demographic information. The obtained data were analyzed by F test, t- test and Correlation Coefficient. The results of the study showed significant difference in life satisfaction (t=9.628, df=98’p<0.001) between the two groups of respondents. Life satisfaction was positively correlated with adaptive coping behavior whereas significant negative correlation was found between life satisfaction and neuroticism, lie scale &extraversion and between non adaptive &adaptive coping behavior. Adaptive coping behavior varied significant between the two groups but no significant difference in non-adaptive behavior was found.
