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Psychological distress and psychological well-being among bank employees: A gender study

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Pages: 378-382
Yasmin Janjhua (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Rashmi Chaudhary (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Rakesh Thakur (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Krishan Kumar (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)

The mental health of employees has become important for the organizations as better psychological health of employees yield positive outcomes for individual as well as for the organizations. The psychological well-being and psychological distress among employees of State Bank of India in district Mandi (HP) has been investigated in current study. The study further examined the gender differences pertaining to psychological well-being and psychological distress. The findings reported that employees experience moderate anxiety, depression and loss of emotional/behavioural control while the indicators positive affect, emotional ties and life satisfaction are slightly higher side of the prescribed score range indicating slightly positive state of mental health. The results on gender difference have shown that males experience slightly higher anxiety and depression as compared to females, however on the component loss of behavioural control/emotional control males have been higher than females. The positive affect and emotional ties have been higher in females, but on life satisfaction males have been noted to be higher. The psychological distress is higher in male and lower in female employees while psychological well being is more in females than males. The effect of gender is found to be statistical significant only for component depression of mental health and non-significant for psychological distress and psychological well-being.

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Pages: 378-382
Yasmin Janjhua (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Rashmi Chaudhary (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Rakesh Thakur (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)
Krishan Kumar (Department of Business Management, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry Nauni Solan, Himachal Pradesh)