To Compare Merchant Navy Officers on Job Satisfaction, Subjective Well-Being and Stress

The aim of the present study is to compare merchant navy officers on their Job satisfaction. Subjective well-being and Stress. The study was conducted on 300 merchant navy officers having 150 Deck and 150 Engine officers. For this purpose Generic Job satisfaction Scale (Macdonald & MacIntrye, 1997); Positive affect and Negative affect (Watson et al., 1988); satisfaction with life scale (Diener et al., 1985); and Perceived stress scale (Cohen et al., 1983) were used. Descriptive statistics and 2×2 ANOVA was used to analyse the data. The results show that Deck officers were found to be low on job satisfaction and subjective well-being, high on stress in comparison to engine officers.