Occupational stress and its management among young working women from nuclear families of Ludhiana city
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2018
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Abstract
Occupational stress is stress related to one’s job. It often stems from unexpected
responsibilities and pressures that do not align with a person’s knowledge, skills, or
expectations, inhibiting one’s ability to cope. Women are especially likely to experience these
sources of stress, since they still carry more of the burden of childcare and domestic
responsibilities than men. The double pressure of work is having an impact on the growing
creed of working women while the number of nuclear families is accentuating the problem
due to withdrawal of the support system. Looking at the rising number of working women
and increasing amount of stress and its impact on home environment, the present study
entitled “ Occupational stress and its management among young working women from
nuclear families of Ludhiana city” was undertaken to assess occupational stress and
contributing factors in selected categories of young working women, to study the impact of
occupational stress on working women and family environment and to identify the coping
styles adopted for managing the occupational stress. The study was conducted with a sample
of total 150 respondents, 50 each from different professional group namely, private school
teachers, nurses from private hospitals and private bank employees were selected from the age
group of 25-40 years of age. Results showed that almost all of the respondents were found to
be having medium level of stress. It can be further seen that half of the respondents fall in the
age group of 31-35 years, were having income of Rs. 20001to 40000per month, working for 8
to 9 hours per day and average distance from work place to home was between 1 to 5 km for
69.33% respondents. Among the factors contributing to stress, time pressure gave more stress
followed by related to work factors.The impacts of stress on the respondents show that impact
on physiological health is the most as compared to others followed by impact on maintaining
the house. As for coping styles it can be seen that the respondents only sometimes takes care
of their personal needs but always try to have good relationship with their family members.