Role Stress and Job Satisfaction amongst Doctors

The present study was undertaken with the intention of examining the nature of role stress and job satisfaction among doctors, and to explore the relationship between these variables. A group of 35 junior doctors working at primary health centres (PHC) and another group of 35 senior doctors attached to various district level hospitals served as sample for the study. To attain the objectives of the study, two psychometric instruments—the Organisational Role Stress Scale (Pareek 1983) and the Employees'Satisfaction-Dissatisfaction Inventory (Pestonjee 1981)—were admin istered to the sample population to obtain data pertaining to the role stress and job satisfaction variables. The data were analysed in terms of the t-test and coefficients of correlation. The results of the study revealed no significant differences between the two groups, except in the management area of job satisfaction and the inter-role distance (IRD) dimension of role stress. Further, job satisfaction variables correlated negatively with all the dimensions of role stress in the case of both groups.