Women in dual role, negotiate house work, child care and emotion work to support their partners and to maintain and developed their relationships. Dual roles also engage in status enhancement work to support their partner in their employment and face special challenges as they try to bane work and family responsibilities. The emotional responses are more significantly correlated to psychological stresses (Srivastava,1999) Long work hours, inflexible work hours less than positive work environment are some of the factors that can contribute to work family conflict. Occupational stress may originate from physical properties of work environment (Holt,1982). Parental demands also create stress, especially in situations. Where the level of social support is low (Ganster et al,1986). The multiple roles have negative implication for women but not for men (Biernat& Wortman, 1991); Greenlars, (1992). Occupational stress scale – Srivastava Singh (1984). Work – Life – Balance Scale Gen Fishers (2001).were administered on a sample of 150 professionals in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. Professionals were selected on stratified random sample basis by considering their different categories of lecturer’s, bank officers, doctors, engineers. With the help of SPSS package, Pearson’s Correlation 1 Doctorial Research Scholar, Department of Business Administration, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu 2 Professor and Head, Department of Business Administration, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu. Coefficient test was carried out. That the results revealed that there is a significant relationship between influence of occupational stress and work life balance dimensions of women professionals.
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