A Study to assess the Level of Stress and Coping among Female Workers in Selected Apparel at Bangalore with a View to Develop an Information Booklet

Work-related stress is a pattern of physiological, emotional, cognitive and behavioral reactions to some extremely taxing aspects of work content, work organization and work Environment. When people experience work-related stress, they often feel tense and distressed and feel they cannot cope.

1) To assess the level of job related stress among female workers in apparel. 2) To assess the level of coping strategies among female workers in apparel. 3) To associate the sociodemographic variables with the level of stress among the female workers in apparel. 4) To associate the socio-demographic variables with the level of cope among the female workers in apparel. 5) To find out correlation between stress and coping of female workers in apparel.

H1: There will be significant amount of stress on female apparel workers.

H2: There is a significant relationship between experience of stress and effective coping skills the workers possesses.

A descriptive survey design was selected for the study.

50 female apparel workers

A non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents for the study.

Demographic data sheet, The Work Stress Scale (WSS, 1990) and Brief COPE (Carver, C.S, 1997) scale were used to collect data from the subject.

Majority 80% of the respondents were experiencing moderate level of stress, 16% of them having high level of stress, 4% of them having low level of stress. Overall mean stress score was found to be 68.1% with S. D 9.16%. The highest mean stress score was noticed in the area of performance pressure (16.74). It was observed that in the present study, 64% of them had moderate level of coping and 36% of them had high level of coping to overcome the stress. Overall mean coping score is found to be 54.64% with S.D 6.55%. The highest mean coping score was noticed in the area of Religion (6.36).