A study on the level of stress and coping of about to retire and newly joined employees of Kolkata

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Page: 1474-1477

Malabika Tripathi and Anwesha Guha (Department of Applied Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The purpose of the present study is to assess the difference in the level of perceived stress and coping among about to retire and newly joined employees. Convenience sampling technique was used to select 100 participants, 50= about to retire (within 6-8 months), 50= Newly Joined (6-8months ). The Perceived Stress Scale developed by Sheldon (1983) and Coping Scale developed by Hamby et al. (2013) were used to measure their level of perceived stress and coping respectively. After the scores were obtained, Independent sample t test was performed to find whether there exists any significant difference in terms of stress and coping levels in both the groups. The results revealed that, the mean scores of stress of newly joined employee is significantly higher than that of about to retire employees. However, there exists no significant difference in the mean scores of coping between newly joined and about to retire employees. Both the findings are in line with the existence body of literature.