JOB STRESS AMONG POLICEMEN AND JOURNALISTS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

An increasing complexities and pressures on human being due to many reasons, the stress level has been rising at a phenomenal rate. The factor, which contributes to the stress, differs between cultures and within the cultures too. Job is the major source of the satisfaction of the various needs, as well as of frustration and stress. Job stress has been putting considerable effect on employees job behaviour, physical and psychological well being. The cost of job stress is also high in human and monitory terms. The job attitude plays a vital role in the behaviour of an employee. It is related to the attitude of employees towards job. Job attitudes are the feelings and beliefs that largely determine how employees perceive their environment, commit themselves to intended action and ultimately behave. To identify the level of job involvement, job involvement scale has been used. The data collected from sampled population is analysed with arithmetic summation with mean and standard deviation. The attempts have been done in this study the job stress of the occupation policemen and journalists and its relation with job attitude and job involvement. The study revealed that policemen have more job stress as compared with the journalists. The journalists has comparative good attitude towards their job and involvement too