Abstract
Aim:The present study aimed to examine the effect of nature of job (High risk/low risk) on psychiatric problems of 200 workers of Tata Motors Ltd. in Jamshedpur. The workers/participants were divided on the basis of the nature of their job (high/low risk) and their salary (high/low paid) resulting in four sub-groups with 50 participants respectively s.Methods:The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q) constructed by Crown and Crisp (1966) and adapted in Hindi by Srivastava and Bhat in 1974 was administered on the participants.Results:Results clearly indicated that nature of job (high and low risk) played a significant role in creating psychiatric problems in workers. Workers doing high risk jobs showed a greater amount of psychiatric problems compared to workers doing low risk jobs in both high paid and low paid categories. Psychiatric problems included free-floating anxiety, obsessional traits and symptoms, phobic anxiety, somatic concomitants of anxiety, neurotic depression, and hysterical personality traits were seen more in high risk job workers.Conclusions:High risk job workers had significantly higher psychiatric problems compared to low risk job workers.
Highlights
Research on the health impact of job conditions has long been a concern of occupational medicine, and attention has focused on physical and chemical hazards
Results clearly indicated that nature of job played a significant role in creating psychiatric problems in workers
High risk job workers had significantly higher psychiatric problems compared to low risk job workers
Summary
Research on the health impact of job conditions has long been a concern of occupational medicine, and attention has focused on physical and chemical hazards. Psychological and social factors related to technology and job content have been identified as possible risk factors for the health and well being of workers. This has extended the "work-environment" concept, which attempts to identify the psychological problems and nature of job relationship with the health and psycho-social outcomes of the workers. The concept of mental health is taken in a wider sense. It is not a representation of any psychodynamic unit but as a loose description, designated for an overall level of success, personal satisfaction, effectiveness and excellence of the individual's functioning
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