A Comparative Study Of Life Stress Among Private And Government Sector Workers

Abstract

The current research aims to study life stress among private and government sector workers. The current research participants include a total of 500 participants (250 from private sector and 250 from government sector). Age range of both the groups ranged from 30 – 50 years. All these participants had urban and semi–urban middle class socioeconomic background. For this purpose, experimental method of research was used in the conduct of the present study. It was required to select a purposive sample of education department of the government of Delhi in the north-east district, nursing and administrative staff of Manipal hospital Ghaziabad and teaching and non-teaching staff of Academy of Business and Engineering Science (ABES), also known as ABES Engineering College, and the necessary tools for collecting the requisite information. The data was collected through the “Personal Information Form”, “Personal Stress Source Inventory”. T-Test was used to compare the means of the two groups. Results showed that private sector workers are more stressed than government sector workers.