Role of social support as a mediator in negative stressful life event and somatic complaints of managerial personnel

Pages:249-254
A. P. Singh and Anand Prakash Dubey (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of social support as mediator in negative stressful life events and somatic complaints relationship of managerial personnel. Stress is inherent condition of human experiences and nature of stress may be positive or negative. The present study was conducted on 210 managerial personnel of various private sectors organizations. The results reveal that person social support partially mediated the job negative, personal negative (dimensions of stress life events) and total negative stressful events and somatic complaints relationship. The findings of this study will add emphasis of social support in work environment and life events course that may be helpful to reduce the somatic complaints of individuals.