Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Nirmala Kaushik ¹, Rakesh Behmani ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, G.J.U.S.&T, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Role conflict affects the mental health of the employees. It is the major determinant of organizational stress. Stress is the degree of tension, anxiety and pressure experienced by a person. Stress is generally assumed as the outcome of the transaction between the stimulus and the response. Mental health is an important internal resource which assures a stable quality of life. In other words mental health is how people look at themselves their lives and other people, evaluate their challenges and problems. It has been reported as an important factor influencing individual's various behaviours, activities, happiness and performance. The success of performance of mental functions results in productive activities. Qualitative work and good production in any organization depend on the mental health of workers of that organization. Keeping in view these points a study was conducted to know the effect of role conflict on mental health of industrial employees. This study was conducted on males and females (100 each in the age range of 25-55 years). The results indicated that role conflict affect the mental health of industrial workers. Higher role conflict indicated poorer mental health.

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Nirmala Kaushik ¹, Rakesh Kumar Behmani ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&T, Hisar, IN
2 Department of Psychology, GJUS&T, University, Hisar, Haryana, IN

Abstract

Suicide has major concern in the present societal scenario. This is a complicated problem for today. Stress is the major cause for suicidal thoughts. Suicidal thoughts can be prevented by various coping resource techniques and self efficacy. Keeping all these views in mind the present study was conducted. The present study is an attempt to relate the suicidal ideation, perceived stress, coping strategies and self efficacy in students. The sample was constituted on 204 students (102 male and 102 females) of engineering colleges of Haryana state with the age range of 18-25 years. The results revealed that positive coping strategies have negative correlation with suicidal ideation. Perceived stress has positive correlation with suicidal ideation among college students.

Keywords

Coping Resource, Perceived Stress, Self Efficacy, Suicidal Ideation.

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