Stress and Cope-up Strategies

Abstract

Stress is a part of every employee's life. However, where stress is excessive, personal and organisational performance is at best damaged. At the worst, stress is a liability and a threat to the survival of an organisation. Therefore the researcher attempts to identify the factors that cause high stress among working women and discuss the coping strategies adopted by them to reduce stress. Discriminant analysis was used in the study to identify the variables that distinguish the high stress respondents from those of low stress respondents and the applicability of nine pre-identified coping strategies for controlling stress were also examined.