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Radhika Gupta ¹, Gayatri Arun Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Crystal Crop Protection Pvt Ltd, IN
2 Delhi University, Delhi, IN

Abstract

There are many potential catalysts to job related stress in English print media journalists. This study explores the extent and types of role stresses present among English daily Print Media journalists along with the type of coping strategy used by them. The present also investigated the extent to which male and female journalists differ along the various attributes of the two variables under study. The findings revealed that the journalists are experiencing high levels of role stress. They have to deal with the time pressures, social constraints, family conflicts, work place politics, and intense competition in the media. However, no significant gender difference was found or for levels of experience. Similarly, no significant difference was found between the avoidant and approach type of coping strategies used by the specified groups. The study has suggested further research implications.

Keywords

Journalists, Occupational Role Stress, Coping, Gender, Experience.

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Radhika Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Crystal Crop Protection Pvt Ltd, IN

Abstract

During the past decade, globalization, increase in scale of operations and privatization policies have drastically changed conventional patterns in all sectors making stress commonplace. Organizational role stress and related fields have been subjects of much research, yet role stress among English mass media journalists and doctors has not been well examined. This study explores the extent and types of role stresses and coping strategies prevalent among Doctors and English media journalists. Since contemporary workplace is highly dependent on self-awareness and mutual understanding, personal effectiveness has a major role to play. The present study investigated occupational role stress, personal effectiveness and coping to assess inter-occupational (among doctors and journalists) and gender differences. The findings revealed that the journalists and doctors are experiencing high levels of role stress; inter role distance and resource inadequacy being the potent stressors. No significant gender differences were observed among various stressors except in inter-role distance. Significant differences between doctors and journalists were observed on the openness and perceptiveness dimensions of personal effectiveness. However, males and females were not observed to be different on any dimension. Journalists and doctors were found to be different on confrontative coping and escape avoidance coping styles, while males and females were found to be different on distancing, seeking social support, accepting responsibility and planful problem solving are the dimensions of coping.

Keywords

Doctors, Journalists, Occupational Role Stress, Personal Effectiveness, Coping, Gender.

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Komila Parthi ¹, Radhika Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

Boredom has been defined as "a state of weariness or ennui resulting from a lack of engagement with stimuli in the environment" (Vanden-Bos, 2007). Research suggests that students bring a variety of positive and negative emotions to classroom such as pride, enjoyment, anxiety, anger and boredom (Goetz, Frenzel, Hall, & Pekrun, 2007). These emotions interplay with the students emotions to impact their attention and performance. Despite being so important, studies in this field lack in exclusively focusing on academic domains (Goetz, Ludtke, Nett, Keller, & Lipnevich, 2013). In light of this, the present study aims to investigate boredom proneness, academic boredom, and mood awareness across Arts and Commerce students. For this purpose, 120 students were randomly selected from various departments of DAV college, Chandigarh. Of the 120 students, 60 students were from Arts department and 60 were from Commerce department. The data were collected with a set of questionnaires composed of a demographic form and three research instruments:Boredom Proneness Scale (Farmer & Sundberg, 1986); Academic Boredom Scale (Acee et al., 2010); and Mood Awareness Scale (Swinkels et al., 1995). The results indicate significant differences between Commerce and Arts students for boredom proneness, academic boredom and mood labelling. Similarly, significant correlations were observed among the variables under study. Future research suggestions and implications have been discussed.

Keywords

Boredom, Mood Awareness, Academic Boredom, Students.

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