Summary: Comparison Of Occupational Stress Between Care Staff

Comparison of occupational stress between care staff

Prashant Das 1018685

Supervisor: Sarah Baker

Research project submitted to Department of Psychology For Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree University of Bedfordshire 2014

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To investigate our hypothesis statistically an independent sample t test was performed on scale measuring occupational stress between care staff in 1:1 and 1:4 support which consisted of ten sub scales measuring, hours of work, physical agent at work, characteristic of the job, control and decision latitude, support at work, job satisfaction, attitude towards work, physical and emotional abuse, pressure at work and consistency and clarity at work (Smith et. al, 2000).
To test our first hypothesis i.e. there will be low level of occupational stress in 1:1 support group as compared to 1:4 support group. The 1:4 support group (N=20) was associated with occupational stress M= 121.25 (SD=21.73) with comparison to 1:1 support group (N=20) with numerically smaller M= 115.00 (SD= 12.66). To test the hypothesis statistically the Results indicated no significant difference in stress level between 1:1 and 1:4 support groups t= 1.11, df= 38, p =.274 > 0.05.
Table 1. Descriptive statistics for Hypothesis 1 (Occupational stress). Groups
Participants (N) Mean Std.