IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iim/iimawp/wp00746.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Study of Role Stress in Relation to Type-A and Anger

Author

Listed:
  • Pestonjee D M

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Pestonjee D M, 1987. "A Study of Role Stress in Relation to Type-A and Anger," IIMA Working Papers WP1987-04-01_00746, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:wp00746
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:wp00746. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eciimin.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.