Job Stress impact on health: An empirical study on police personnel of Bhopal City (M.P.)

International Journal of Economics and Management Studies

© 2017 by SSRG - IJEMS Journal

Volume 4 Issue 5

Year of Publication : 2017

Authors : Dr.Pavan Mishra Upma Bist

10.14445/23939125/IJEMS-V4I5P112

How to Cite?

Dr.Pavan Mishra Upma Bist, "Job Stress impact on health: An empirical study on police personnel of Bhopal City (M.P.)," SSRG International Journal of Economics and Management Studies, vol. 4,  no. 5, pp. 60-67, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23939125/IJEMS-V4I5P112

Abstract:

Stress is an inevitable and unavoidable. Work is central part of human life. Work performs an important role in individuals’ social lives, providing the support of a regular income, opportunities and personal growth, social identity and self-esteem, but can have consequences for the worker’s health. Many people not aware of occupational stress that occur in the organization and they did not care about the occupational stress. They assume that the occupational stress will only affect their performance of work but also affect their health like heart attack, migraine that can lead to death. If people not were aware about job stress, it will become worst such as suicide (Yahaya, 2010). Stress manifests in various forms of emotional disorders and gets its reflection in the form of anxiety, depression, helplessness, hopelessness and anger (Singh and Singh, 1992). With the slightest provocation the people having distress prone personality patterns are easily induced to anger and anxiety and become unable to relax. The ten most general claims accepted by medical science are for the treatment of stress related illnesses (i.e. high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, depression, menopause, type 1 diabetes, epilepsy, type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart diseases and gastro-oesophageal reflux). Furthermore, 75% of the visits to primary health care facilities are stress-related (Van der Merwe, 2005). In this paper study have been conducted to find out the occupational stress impact on healthon police personnel’s. There is correlation analysis has been done between different variables like: occupation stress with parameter of job hierarchy, nature of job and different health issues faced by the police personnel due to occupational stress. Lastly results, discussion and suggestion have been drown followed by the conclusion.

Keywords:

Occupational Stress, Police Personnel, Stress, Health, job hierarchy.

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