Occupational Stress Among Brick Kiln Workers Interaction Of Demographic Variables

The purpose of the study is to investigate the cause and effect relationship among the occupational stress as dependent variables and age, working experience as the independent variables with the help of linear regression model. Further a two way analysis of variance has been applied in order to study the interaction effects of different demographic variables, on occupational stress. The study adopted a survey research design. A total of 100 workers were selected for the study working at brick kilns in Uttar Pradesh, India. The data was collected with the help of modified version of Occupational Stress Scale developed by the Srivastava A.K. (1976). The study clearly revealed that the fitting a cause and effect model, age and experiences in work are the robust explanation of the occupational stress. The amount of occupational stress perceived by the brick kiln workers divided into different categories on the bases of demographic variable ie., gender, family size, literacy status and marital status separately, were found to be significantly different, but the interaction of the two variable jointly did not show any significant impact on occupational stress.