Mental Health of Employees in Government and Private Sector

Traditionally, government jobs are considered to be safer than the private sector jobs. Government jobs offer many timely perks like-pension, financial services, promotions and pay raises, stability and job security, more relaxed and congenial working style than private sector, good retirement benefits unlike jobs in the private sector. Because of these reasons investigator felt that there would surely be a significant difference between mental health of private employees and government employees. The present study aimed at investigating the same and presents the difference between mental health of private employees and government employees. The population of this study comprised of employees (male and female) working in private and government organizations. Simple random sampling method was used to select 60 females and 60 males in the age category of 20 years-60 years. Employee's Mental Health Inventory was administered to gather the data for the study. The study indicated difference between mental health of private employee's and government employee's significant only according to the age group.