Occupational stress and coping level among computer operators in software industry

Stress is a part of modern life, with increasing complexity of life, stress is likely to increase. Stress is built in the concept of role, which is conceived as the position a person occupies in a system. Keeping this in view a study was conducted to know the Occupational stress and coping level among computer operators in software industry of Hubballi and Bangalore city, Karnataka, India. A survey was conducted by pre-structured interview method from 60 computer operators in two cities of Karnataka state and information regarding health effects, occupational stress, and background information of the work area was collected. The results revealed that on the whole about 51 percent of the computer operators were belonged to age group of 25-29 years. About 61 percent of them had completed their degree. More than 60 percent of respondents were doing data analysis and mail. About36 percent of them had obesity. More than 50 percent of the employees had high level of stress and about 70 percent of them had moderate level of coping mechanism.