Occupational stress in the Assam Civil Service Officers(ACS) A Comparative Study

Psychology

Stress in every sphere of life has become a major issue of concern these days. Stress in workplace has become a common problem these days. Stress in workplace often leads to dissatisfaction with one’s job, which leads to deterioration of one’s physical health as well as mental health. The life of an administrator is burdened with a lot of stress due to the nature of the job profile. The purpose of the present study is to empirically investigate Occupational stress among the Assam Civil Service Officers and to compare their Occupational Stress on the basis of length of service. Also, to study the level of Job Satisfaction, Resilience and Emotional intelligence of the bureaucrats with respect to tenure/hierarchy in the organization and Gender. A sample of 60 participants were taken for the study. The four variables namely occupational stress, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and resilience were measured using four different psychometric tools. Significant difference was seen in Occupational stress of the bureaucrats serving at different levels of the hierarchy wherein officer of the shortest tenure exhibited the most amount of stress as compared to the officers of the longest tenure. It was also found that gender difference was seen between male and female participants in terms of the four variables namely namely occupational stress, emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and resilience.

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