Effect of marital status on occupational stress and job satisfaction among female bank employees

Pages: 233-235
Priya Soni and Nehashree Srivastava (Department of Psychology, National P.G College Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

Banking originated in the late 18th century in India. The Bank of Hindustan, established in 1770 is one of the oldest banks. The study below attempts to study the effect of marital status on occupational stress and job satisfaction among female bank employees. The sample consists of 15 married female bank employees and 15 unmarried female bank employees of Indian Overseas Bank Lucknow district of various branches. The tools used for this purpose were Asha Job satisfaction scale developed by Hingar, Mittal, Mathur, and Paranami to assess job satisfaction and the Occupational stress index developed by Srivastava and Singh to assess occupational stress index. The statistical method used was t test. No significant difference between job satisfaction and occupational stress among married and unmarried female bank employees was found.