Perceived Occupational Stress among Teaching and Non-Teaching Employees Working in L.N. Mithila University, India
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Occupational Stress and University EmployeesAbstract
The present investigation was aimed at studying the occupational stress and its stressors among teaching and non-teaching employees working in L. N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar, India. For the present study total sample consisted of one hundred twenty employees (N=120) comprising teaching (n=60) and non-teaching (n=60) which were selected randomly from different departments of L.N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Data collected through questionnaire schedules using occupational stress index developed by Singh and Srivastava (1981). Having collected the data on each item of the index, data tabulated according to procedures as provided by authors for giving statistical treatment. Results revealed the fact that no significant difference have been found in terms of total occupational stress between the group of teaching and non-teaching employees, whereas, four dimensions/stressors of occupational stress, namely, Role overload, Role ambiguity, Role conflict, Unreasonable group and political pressure, Responsibility for persons and Strenuous working conditions have been emerged as the predictors of occupational stress between the group of teaching and non-teaching employees. It is interestingly to note that non-teaching employees were found more prone to occupational stress than the teaching employees while working in LNMU. The discrepancies of results obtained have been discussed in detail by highlighting the probable reasons.
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