With a view to cross-checking of information relating to the life satisfaction of the educated unemployed women 30 subjects (volunteers), incidentally chosen, unemployed for at least 5years after completion of studies were asked to respond to the life satisfaction scale by Neugarten and his associates (1961) and simultaneously 30 subjects employed for at least 5years were also asked to do the same (the former being experimental group and the latter control group). The scale has 20 items in the form of statements with force choice response categories of agree and disagree. It has 20 items -- 12 positive and 8 negatives. Response agrees on positive items and disagree on negative items yields one point and no response no points. Thus, the range of the scale is 0 to 20 indicating higher score higher life satisfaction and lower inversely so. The reliability and validity in the Indian condition of the scale has also been found to be satisfactory and hence recommended for use. In the second phase of the investigation 20% of the volunteers from both the groups, selected randomly, were depth interviewed subsequently so that the content analysed information could be cross-checked. A careful analysis of the data from both the sources indicated, qualitatively as well as quantitatively, that unemployment for a longer duration essentially decreases the life satisfaction of a person. The statistical treatment of the groups inthe first phase (t = 11.58>.01) as also the content analysed data from the second phase attested to the fact that for the sake of authenticity of data it is prudent to use the multimethod approach.

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Keywords: Unemployment & Life Satisfaction, Joblessness & Life Satisfaction, Well-being & Unemployment.