Abstract
The study investigated the coping strategies of stress adopted by female employees with children in the university of Cape Coast. A descriptive study was the designed employed in carrying out the study. Two hundred and four (204) respondents were sampled from 431 female employees with children to answer a set of questionnaires. The results revealed that demands from husbands and thinking of promotional issues were some of the stressors that confronted the respondents. The major effects of stress among the respondents were their inability to plan well and lack of concentration on household chores. The result showed that the most prevailing coping strategy adopted by the respondents was engaging in conversation with friends and family members as well as getting assistance from colleagues. It was concluded that female employees with children in the University of Cape Coast go through stress, which emanates from different sources. Some of the recommendations were that management of the University must educate their employees on and appropriate strategies to cope with their stress. That could be done by management through seminars conferences, workshops on coping strategies of stress.
Highlights
In today‟s world, stress has become a worldwide phenomenon, which occurs in various forms in every workplace
This study, assessed the coping strategies of stress adopted by female employees with children in the University of Cape Coast and professed some implications for management practices
The results of the study are presented at this section
Summary
In today‟s world, stress has become a worldwide phenomenon, which occurs in various forms in every workplace. Employees are generally working for longer hours, as the rising levels of responsibilities require them to exert themselves even more strenuously to meet rising expectations about work performance. The word „stress‟ is not unfamiliar to most people. Stress is defined as the physiological and psychological reactions to certain events in the environment. Some people defined stress as events or situations that caused them to feel tension, pressure or negative emotions, such as anxiety and anger. Stress is an unpleasant state of emotional and physiological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well- being (Tenibiaje, 2013)
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