The Impact of Occupational Stress on Mental health of the Security guards

Abstract

Occupational stress refers to the ongoing or progressing stress an employee experiences due to the responsibilities, environment, conditions or other pressures of the workplace. Recently occupational stress has been identified as rapidly growing phenomena and since the occupational stress and the mental health of the security guards have not been addressed frequently, this study aimed at to investigate the relationship between occupational stress level and its associated factors among security guards of age 35-55 with reference to Colombo District.

This study was based on questionnaire method and has been developed by quantitative point of view. The sample of 60 security guards have been selected by based on the busyness of the area and were equally distributed a questionnaire as 20 per each area of banks, universities and hospitals. The questionnaire was consisted of three sections and data analysis was done by using basic statistical methods and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).

As the results conveyed, it is found that, there was a strong positive linear relationship between the Physical Illnesses and occupational stress, which is (0.97) in value and all the factors showed a significant correlation with the dependent variable, representing that there was a significant positive relationship between all the factors and the dependent variable.

So through this study the security guard’s mental health has been diagnosed and it has suggested actions to minimize the occupational stress of the security guards in order to increase the productivity and to promote the mental health of the security guards through action plan implications.