Role stress among doctors

Pages: 53-55
Noor Jahan Khatoon (Girls Senior Secondary School Central Karimia, Jamshedpur)
Zaki Akhtar (Department of Psychology, Karim City College, Jamshedpur)
Hoori ZAki (Business Management, Kanpur University, Kanpur)

Doctors are the life line of any nation. They imbibe wellness to the society. On the earth they act with their divine profession and save lives of people. The present study is an attempt to find out the organizational role stress among doctors. The sample consists of 50 doctors (26 males and 24 females). Pareek’s (1983) organizational role stress (ORS) scale was used to measure ten types of role stress ( inter-role stress (IRD), role stagnation (RS), role expectation conflict (REC), role erosion (RE), role overload (RO), role isolation (RI), personal inadequacy (PI), self-role distance (SRD), role ambiguity (RA), resource inadequacy (RIn)). The sample further bifurcated into two groups fresher and experience holders. The t-test was used to find out the significance of differences for each type of role stress. Result revealed that there was no significance of difference in male and female doctors. Both are equally experiencing stress. Although, the role stagnation is stronger in female doctors as compare to male doctors. It has also been seen that experienced holders and fresher were differed significantly in terms of organizational role stress. They differ on the dimension of role erosion (RE) and role overload (RO). Role erosion (RE) and role overload (RO) were stronger in experienced doctors as compared to fresher. And total role stresses were stronger in experienced doctors as compared to fresher.