Mental health at the workplace: A study on non-teaching staff in the university campus

Pages: 2014-2016
Sanjay Kumar, Waqar Maqbool Parray, Shraddha Khare, Blessy Elizabeth David, and Ghooman Ahirwar (Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh)

World Health Organization’s (WHO, 1948) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. In any organization employees’ psychological and physical health is an important factor for their work performance and productivity. Due to lack of studies about non-teaching employee’s general health, this study is aimed to assess the general health among university non-teaching staff. For this purpose 174 non-teaching staff were selected (155 males & 19 females) within the age of 25-59 years. The Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used in this study. In the present study obtained scores were analyzed with help of t-test. The findings did not revealed a significant difference between male and female employees on the General Health Questionnaire. But the findings depicted a difference between male and female employees on somatic symptoms, anxiety, depression and social dysfunction.