Effect of Chronotype and Career Status of Couples on Occupational Stress

The purpose of the present study was conducted to see the effect of Chronotype and Career Status of Couples on Occupational Stress. Following the disproportional random sampling technique 100 male subjects were selected from considering two characteristics of population, Chronotype (Morning active, Afternoon active, & Evening active) and Career Status (single & dual career status. To assess the Chronotype of the subjects Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (Horn & Ostberg, 1976) was used and to measure Occupational Stress the Occupational Stress Index (OSI) (Shrivastava & Singh, 1984) was used. ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The results indicate that chronotype and career status of couples generate significant effect upon occupational stress of subjects. Occupational Stress of the Ss with Morningness Preference was lower than the Occupational Stress of the Ss with Eveningness Preference. Dual career couples have shown higher Occupational Stress than the Single career couples. No interactional effects of these two factors were found. Therefore, it may be concluded that the career status of couples and morningness-eveningness preference independently generate variance upon Occupational Stress.