Abstract
The main objective of the present study is to examine the role stress among government and private doctors. A sample of 60 male and female doctors was drawn randomly drawn from the population. The organizational role stress (ORS) developed by Pareek was used for data collection. Data was collected by face to face interview method from the target population from different hospitals of Anand district. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were calculated for the analysis of data. Results indicate that there is no significant difference among government and private doctors in role of stress.
Highlights
Stress is a feeling of tension or pressure that people experience when demands placed on them exceed the resources they have to meet these demands (Moore, 1995)
Role stress in doctors working in Government and Private Hospitals
The above table no. 1 shows the mean difference between two groups in terms of role stress
Summary
Stress is a feeling of tension or pressure that people experience when demands placed on them exceed the resources they have to meet these demands (Moore, 1995). According to Selye (1956), “Any external event or internal drive which threatens to upset the organism’s equilibrium is stress.”. He has defined stress as the non-specific response of the body to any demand made upon it. From the foregoing definitions it may be pointed out that the researchers explained the notion of stress from various perspectives: i) as an external force which is perceived as threatening; ii) as response to a situation demanding an individual to adapt to change, physically or psychologically; iii) as an interactional outcome of the external demand and internal resources; iv) as personal response to certain variations in the environment and v) a more comprehensive combination of all. Organizational/ Job stress has been defined in terms of a misfit between person‟s skills & abilities and the -
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