Gender Differences: Impact of Work Stress on Emotion Regulation

Aim: The research aim is to find the gender differences in the impact of work stress on emotion regulation and relationship between the two variables. Methodology: A sample size of 125 (Male – 99, Female – 26), Postgraduates, aged between 22 to 36 was taken and independent t-test, Pearson correlation and linear regression were applied using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to find the results. Result: Independent sample t-test (Levene’s test for equality of variance) represents the level of significance as 0.032 and 0.000 for work stress and emotion regulation respectively. The correlation between work stress and emotion regulation in males is 0.010 and in females it is 0.936. Furthermore, the significance level in regression is 0.010 and 0.936 in males and females respectively. Conclusion: This study concluded that there is a significant difference between male and female on their level of emotion regulation. A significant relationship between work stress and emotion regulation among males. However, there is no a significant relationship between work stress and emotion regulation in females. Work stress significantly predicted a negative correlation with emotion regulation in male and significantly predicted a positive correlation in female between the two variables.