A STUDY ON EFFECT OF FAMILY SEPARATION ON STRESS LEVEL OF SOLDIERS DEPLOYED IN RAJASTHAN SECTOR OF INDIAN AIR FORCE

The Armed forces operate in a dynamic environment, which present several challenges to its personnel. Soldiers are living in an idle stress breading environment due to frequent and large number of uncertainties. The study was an attempt to identify the effects of family separation in increasing stress level among soldiers of Indian Air Force in frontier field units in Rajasthan Sector. Convenient sampling method adopted for this descriptive study with 80 as the sample size. The result shows that worries about health conditions of family members, poor interpersonal relationship, reduced performance, poor marital relationship, feeling of isolation and loneliness and worries about safety of relatives and properties are the factors which contributes towards increase of stress level among soldiers due to military induced family separation.