A STUDY ON LEVEL OF PERCEIVED STRESS AND NEED FOR TRAINING ON STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress is part of human life and every individual faces stress in their life. Severe Stress or distress can take a  toll on individual physical and mental health, damaging effect on every part of life and performance unless they discover to cope with it appropriately, thus training on stress management becomes essential for employees.

Aims and Objectives: The present study was done with following objectives-

1. To measure level of stress among employees
2. To evaluate effectiveness of stress management training on stress level
3. To study relation of stress with gender and work of employee
4. To find if any, key factor causing stress to be included in training on stress management.

Materials and methods:

The PSS item inventory 10-item version (PSS-10) was used to measure the degree to which situations in an individual’s life are appraised as stressful, over the last one-month duration. Total of 103 employees were included in the present study who were working in different government departments and attended training on stress management. Statistical analysis was done using R studio software and MS Excel.

Results:

70.87% employees had moderate and 2.92% had severe stress. Females and healthcare employees have more stress. The stress score is less for those who had attended training in past on stress management. Anger is one of the key factor in causing stress.

Conclusions:

We recommend regular training on stress management that must include anger management and females and health care employees should be given preference in such trainings.

Keywords: PSS (Perceived stress scale), Stress levels, Stress management training need