SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS TRIGGERING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS OF ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a combination of education, income and occupation. Research during the past indicate that SES is related to Psychological distress (Lazzarino, Hamer, Stamatakis & Steptoe, 2013) psychological distress is to describe unpleasant feeling or emotions that impact the level of functioning and interfere with activities of daily living, In our country, with the growth of industrialization, building construction has taken a leap ahead of everything and A&N islands too experienced this leap. With the growth of construction sector in the islands, a good number of skilled and unskilled workers are required. Most of the man power required here fulfilled through migratory workers from Mainland India. The workers are confined to their contractors and living shelters provided by these contractors which often lack basic amenities. This study proposes to follow the methodology based on grounded theory. The grounded theory research design is a qualitative research design. That mainly uses systematic sets of procedures and steps to develop an inductively derived grounded theory about a phenomenon. Theoretical sampling method was used to collect the data for generating a theory. Small individual interview sessions lasting upto 60 minutes in average was conducted to know how socio-economic status leads to Psychological distress in migrant construction workers in A&N islands. Since the research is qualitative in nature and follows grounded theory, data's were analysed using NVIVO