Study of role stress in relation to type-A and anger

Abstract

Present study is an attempt to explore the relationship between factors of role stress, Type-A pattern of behavioural disposition and State-Trait anger among three categories of management personnel. A battery of three psychometric instruments, namely, 'ORS Scale', 'State-Trait Anger Scale' and 'Can You Type Your Behaviour?' were administered on 221 top managers, 326 middle managers and 77 IAS officers. Critical ratio test, median test and product moment coefficients of correlation were used to analyse the data. Result of the present study suggests that interrole distance and role erosion are the most dominant contributor of role stress whereas role ambiguity and personal inadequacy are the least important contributor for the total sample of management personnel. Comparison of scores on ORS Scale revealed that by and large all the three comparison groups differ from one another. Type-A and trait-anger scores were found to be statistically insignificant whereas state-anger scores were significantly different in all the three comparison groups. Study of correlation coefficients revealed that more correlation coefficients among role stress factors as well as ORS vs S/T anger were significant in case of TMG, followed by NNG and IAS personnel. More correlation coefficients between Type-A score and ORS factors were found to be significant in case of IAS group as compared to other datasets. Datasets were also dichotomized on the basis of age of the respondents. Statistical differences as well as correlation coefficients pertaining to variables understudy were analysed for both, low and high age group management personnel of each categories.