Role of career status of couples in occupational stress

Pages: 774-775
Swati Mishra (School of Studies in Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, C.G.)

Today Stress is unpleasant and undesirable, and leads to a variety of psychological and somatic problems. The consistently increasing rate of psychopathological disorder among the dual career and single career couples the outcome of high level of occupational stress prevailing in the world of work in the modern competitive of global economy. The present study was examined the effect of Career Status of Couples on Occupational Stress. Following the random sampling technique 100 male Ss were selected from the characteristics of population Career Status (single and dual career status).Occupational Stress Index by Shrivastava and Singh (1984) was used to measure the occupational stress of the subjects. ‘t’ test were used for the data analysis. Result indicated that the dual career couples have shown higher occupational stress than the single career couples.