doi no.: 05-2016-44975451,  DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2018-41265248/

Rekha Marskole¹, Dr. Arun Modak²

Affiliations

1 Research Scholar, Shri Satya Sai University of Technology & Medical Science, Sehore

²Dr. Arun Modak, Asst. Professor, Department of Nurshing Science, Shri Satya Sai University of Technology & Medical Science, Sehore

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to compare  and assess the occupational stress among librarians  working in private and Government colleges of Bhopal (M.P.). For this purpose,  one hundred librarians at various colleges were selected. Further they were divided into two groups where 50 librarians from government colleges and 50 librarians from private colleges were taken. Occupational Stress Index (O.S.I) by Dr. A K Shrivastava & Dr. A P Singh was adopted in the study to measure the level of stress among the librarians. To find out  the level of occupational stress descriptive statistics mean, standard deviation and ‘t’ test were employed. The results of the analysis of data revealed that librarians from private colleges of Bhopal had more occupation stress when compared with librarians from government colleges. from this study. Highly significant difference was also observed  between  librarians of private and Government college.

Keywords: Occupation, Stress, Librarians, Government and Private Colleges

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