Nature of Job and Psychiatric Problems: The Experiences of Industrial Workers

Perwez, Syed Khalid and Khalique, Abdul and Ramaseshan, H. and Swamy, T. N. V. R. and Mansoor, Mohammed (2014) Nature of Job and Psychiatric Problems: The Experiences of Industrial Workers. Global Journal of Health Science, 7 (1). ISSN 1916-9736

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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.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Open Archive Press > Medical Science
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Date Deposited: 06 May 2023 07:08
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2024 04:15
URI: http://library.2pressrelease.co.in/id/eprint/1107

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