A Comparative Study On Occupational Stress Among Women Working In Government And Private Sector

Research Article
Shobana S., Chacko Nisha., Verma Rekha and Mathur Anjali
DOI: 
xxx-xxxxx-xxxx
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Occupational stress, working women, Government and Private sector.
Abstract: 

It is an important task for working women to balance responsibilities both at work place and at home. This challenging task causes stress at different level in working women’s life. The aim of the study is to focus on the stress causes among government and private working women with the objective to compare the occupational stress level between women’s working in government and private sector. Socio Economic Status Scale devised by Kuppu Swami (1962) revised by Oberoi (2014) and the Occupational Stress Index (OSI) developed by Srivastava and Singh (1984) was used. A sample of 180 working women, out of this 90 each from government and private sector are participated in this study. The 90 working women from each sector are further divided into three categories of lower, middle and upper socio-economic group comprising 30 samples in each group. Statistical test and two-way ANOVA were used for data analysis. The finding of the study reflects that there was a significant difference in stress level between working women in government and private sectors.