International Journal of Advanced Research and Development

Authors
Shaik Jan Saida, Dr. B Govinda Reddy

Abstract
An attempt is made in the present investigation to assess the coping resources among railway employees. 480 employees both male and female with short job tenure and long job tenure, above supervisory and below supervisory level working in operations, commercial, mechanical and electrical departments constituted the sample of the present study. Job tenure, job level and nature of work are the independent variables. Coping resources is dependent variable. Coping resources of the sample was assessed by “Personal Resources Questionnaire” developed by Samuel H. Osipow and Arnold R. Spokane (1987). It provides measures on four coping resources i.e., recreation, self-care, social support and rational / cognitive coping resources. A 2x2x4 factorial design was employed. It was hypothesized that there would be significant difference between above supervisors and below supervisors, short job tenure and long job tenure and working in operations, commercial, mechanical and electrical departments. The obtained data are quantitatively analyzed by using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). It was found that job level would significantly influence the social support coping resources, job tenure would significantly influence social support and rational / cognitive coping resources and nature of work would significantly influence recreation, self-care, social support and rational / cognitive coping resources.