Open AccessA Study on Occupational Stress Among Women Employees in Private Banking Sector with Special Reference to Thrissur District
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Paul Chakkachamparambil
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research in science, communication and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-9429
DOI - 10.48175/ijarsct-1935
Subject(s) - likert scale , occupational stress , workgroup , private sector , ranking (information retrieval) , psychology , test (biology) , descriptive research , stress (linguistics) , association (psychology) , business , clinical psychology , statistics , political science , developmental psychology , mathematics , psychotherapist , computer network , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , machine learning , computer science , law , biology
Occupational stress is defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirement of the job do not match the capabilities, resources or needs of the worker. Bank employees belong to special workgroup who undergo varying levels of mental stress in workplace. Women, in the Indian society, play the dual role as ‘homemaker’ and ‘working woman’. The research was conducted to investigate the association between age and core factors influencing stress. This paper aims to find out the level stress towards various sources of stress and also to analyse various stress relief methods used by the women employees in private banking sector in Thrissur District. 50 women employees working in various private banks in Thrissur District were taken for this study. The study is descriptive in nature. Chi-square test is used for analysing the association between age and core factors influencing stress, Likert Scale and Ranking method also used for this research. The findings also reveal that there is no association between age and core factors influencing stress.