Effect of industrial environment on health status, mood states and well-being among workers: An empirical study

Pages: 229-232
Neeraj (Department of Psychology, D.J. College Baraut, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh)

The present study aimed at determining the effect of industrial environment on health status, mood states and wellbeing among workers in sugar factory. The final sample was consisted of 120 male respondents (60 factory workers & 60 non-factory workers) with the help of purposive sampling method from west Uttar-Pradesh. Age of the subjects ranged from 25 to 35 years. The Mood-States questionnaire constructed and standardized by Kapoor and Bhargave, CMI health questionnaire by Prasad and Verma, Well-being scale by Rai and Gupta were used. The data was analysed using Mean, S.D. and t value. The findings of the research revealed that the factory workers having low well-being scores than that of non factory workers. The results indicate that the analyses of scores as different mood states dimensions explicates that the factory workers have higher mean scores than that of non factory workers. Similarly, the findings of the investigation indicate that there is a significant difference in the health scores of factory workers and non factory workers. These results are discussed in the light of theoretical and empirical studies.