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A STUDY ON ROLE STRESS OF INDIAN MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES IN RELATION TO THEIR PERSONALITY

International Journal of Social and Allied Research

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Title A STUDY ON ROLE STRESS OF INDIAN MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES IN RELATION TO THEIR PERSONALITY
 
Creator Arulkumar, S.; Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration (DDE), Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608002, Tamil Nadu, India
 
Subject Organizational Behaviour
Role stress, Personality, Medical representatives, Stress, Indian medical representatives, Work stress.
Work Stress
 
Description This research aims to study the effect of personality traits on role stress. In the research paper, ten dimensions of role stress are dependent variables and eight personality dimensions are independent variables. To clarify the relationships among these variables, ANOVA and Regression were applied. The data was collected through pretested questionnaire from 162 medical representatives in Chennai, India as survey participants. The results indicate that, negative impact of intuition on inter role distance (-0.483), positive impact of feeling on inter role distance and positive impact of introversion on role stagnation (0.335). Overall it is found that intuition, thinking and feeling dimension have an impact on ten dimensions of role stress.
 
Publisher SPEAK Foundation
 
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Date 2012-10-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Survey method is adopted in this study which is exploratory and associational in nature. The study is based on primary and secondary data and instrument used for collecting primary data is pre-tested questionnaire.
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.foundationspeak.com/index.php/ijsar/article/view/82
 
Source International Journal of Social and Allied Research (IJSAR); Vol 1, No 1 (2012): IJSAR - Oct 1(1) 2012; 34-40
2349-9311
2319-3611
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.foundationspeak.com/index.php/ijsar/article/view/82/89
 
Coverage India

The population consists of all Medical Representatives over the age of 18 who all are working in Chennai, India was collected. The sample size for the research was 162.
 
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