Study On The Stress Of The Women Of Urban Families With Low Subsistence Allowances

With urbanization of our country, members taking the low subsistence allowances in the bottom of the society bear more pressure, and face physical and mental health problems. In this crowd, most individuals are women that suffer pressures both from the social and their family. They are in need of emotional support and help from family, community and social more, social assistance should be changed from only material help to both the material and spiritual help.The article introduces their stress status and coping style used, taking the women of urban families with low subsistence allowances in P District Shanghai as study objects, with the questionnaire and case interview as data collecting methods. This research described the basic characteristics, pressure situation of the women, analyzed major stress sources and the situation of coping style. According to the results of this study, the women are facing pressure from society, family and their own. Positive coping strategies such as problem solving, active interpretation and seeking support are adopted when they encounter stress, and negative coping strategies such as denial, depression, emotional vent are less used. Moreover, this paper proposed the corresponding countermeasures to prevent and mitigate the women's pressure as the reference resources of social assistance.