Occupational stress and family environment in industrial workers

Pages: 611-613
Khedkar Yogita M. and Kulange Shrikant P. (Department of Psychology, New Arts, Com & Science College, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra)

The Industrial revolution brought about dramatic changes in society. It has impacted humans socially and economically. The aim of the study was to find co-relation between occupational stress and family environment of Industrial workers. Occupational stress is known as stress at work. It occurs when there is discrepancy between the demands of the work and that of individuals. It is a serious work hazard which has the power to bring crisis on industrial workers. There may be various reasons for occupational stress like personality, general outlook on life, Problem solving abilities, and social and family support system, etc. Hence the present study tries to find out the relationship between occupational stress and family environment of industrial workers. For this study the 120 industrial workers working at four different industries in Ahmednagar city were taken as sample with age 25 to 45 yrs. The relationship between occupational stress and family environment was derived using occupational stress index and family environment scale. The data was analysed using SPSS 18 to study the correlations (Pearson product-moment correlations). The result reveals that there is significant correlation between occupational stress and dimensions of family environment.