MENTAL HEALTH AT WORK PLACE.

Stress is conceptualised as a process that involves recognition of and response to threat or danger. Coping on the other hand is a central part of this process includes overt and covert response to threat or danger usually directed towards overall reduction of stress. The present study intended to access the existence of any difference among working men and working women with regard to different styles of coping as an indicator of mental health. With this objective the present study used tools to measure the different coping styles i.e. critical parent (CP), nurturing parent (NP), adult (AD), adopted child (AC), little professor (LP) and natural child (NC). The Transactional analysis (TA) scale applied, consisting of 48 behavioural observations indicating the various coping styles. The TA scale was applied to a sample of 30 working men and 30 working women between the same age ranges. The test findings suggest an insignificant difference among working men and working women with regard to the various coping styles taken into consideration. The present study is however, a minor approach in assessing the difference in coping styles among working men and women. This study implicates further research of its kind using multivariate research designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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