A comparative study of merchant navy officers on quality of life and sleep

Pages:226-230
Ankita (Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Akanksha Tripathi (Department of Psychology, MCM DAV College for Women, Sec-36, Chandigarh)

The aim of the present study was to compare merchant navy officers on their Quality of sleep and Quality of life. The study was conducted on 300 merchant navy officers with 150 Deck and 150 Engine officers. For this purpose, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) by Buysse et al. (1988) and WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF, 1994) were used. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U test and 2×2 ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The results showed that Deck officers were found to be low on quality of life and quality of sleep in comparison to engine officers.