Mental Health and Life Satisfaction among Bank Employees

The present paper was aimed to assess mental health and life satisfaction among bank employees. A sample of 400 employees of nationalized and co-operative banks were selected purposively from Marathwada, Out of which 200 employees, (100 male and 100 female) were taken from nationalized banks and similarly 200 employees were chosen from the co-operative banks. The age of sample varied between 30 to 40 years having 12th Standard to Graduate level education. The Life Satisfaction scale and Employees Mental Health Inventory were used to measure life satisfaction and mental health among employees. Obtained data was analyzed by applying mean, standard deviation and two-way ANOVA. Results indicated that Cooperative and nationalized bank employees do not differ on their mental health criteria. Employees working in nationalized bank were found to be higher on their life satisfaction criteria as compared to employees working in cooperative bank.