Psychological Distress and Anxiety among Housewives: The Mediational Role of Perceived Stress, Loneliness, and Housewife Burnout

Housewives are experiencing chronic stress when dealing with multiple roles (cooking, shopping, tidying the house) in their daily life. Although earlier studies have documented a significant link between role overload and stress-psychological well-being workplace, few been conducted among housewives despite high anxiety burnout reports. The diathesis-stress model transactional of indicate that there may be somecontributory factors related to mental health. Within these frameworks, this research aimed examine housewives' psychological distress by focusing on three contributory namely housewife burnout, perceived stress, loneliness. present study was novel contribution literature investigating mediating those housewives. Participants were 500 volunteer ages 20 70 from Turkey. In addition Demographic Information Form, Perceived Stress Scales (PSS-10), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), UCLA Loneliness Scale—Version 3 (UCLA LS3), Burnout (CUBAC), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) used. Results showed four paths model, explaining 31.19% total variance relationship mediated distress, loneliness, burnout. Specifically, higher associated findings provide beneficial insight for clinicians prioritize abandonment cope while working having anxiety.