Cross‐cultural social stress among Muslim, Hindu, Santal and Oraon communities in Rasulpur of Bangladesh

Abstract

Purpose -Social structural and cultural theories suggest that social stress induced from socio-cultural status patterns varies across the world's cultures. The purpose of the study is to compare subjective social stress in connection with objective socio-cultural status patterns among Muslim, Hindu, Santal and Oraon communities in Rasulpur of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach -This study was conducted in Rasulpur, Bangladesh. Preliminarily, 760 male arrack drinkers who were stressful in their socio-cultural status patterns were selected by snowball process from the study area. Of the respondents, 391 arrack drinkers (109 Muslim, 103 Hindu, 89 Santal and 90 Oraon) were intensively interviewed by semi-structural questionnaire to examine and compare the research purpose. Findings -The results of Pearson's x 2 test suggested that there were significant differences ( p , 0.01) in subjective social stress in connection with socio-cultural status patterns, except income among the communities, among the ethnic communities. The results of Spearman bivariate correlation coefficients revealed that there were significant relationships ( p , 0.01 and p , 0.05) between socio-cultural status patterns and its social stress, except occupation and income among the communities studied. Research limitations/implications -Although the findings of the study have been successful in understanding differences in social stress in the context of socio-cultural status patterns among the Muslim, Hindu, Santal and Oraon communities in Rasulpur, Bangladesh, further empirical research is needed on how personality factor, familial and community coping and social support from social service system influence the differences in subjective social stress associated with socio-cultural status patterns among the communities. In spite of the limitations, the findings may provide valuable information for cross-cultural social health policy and programs to manage the problem. Originality/value -This paper is original in linking its theory, policy and practice to reduce subjective social stress in the context of socio-cultural variations among the Muslim, Hindu, Santal and Oraon communities in Bangladesh.

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