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| Published: December 08, 2021
Anxiety, Stress and Depression among Employees During Covid-19 Period
Final Year M. Sc. Psychology, Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Psychology, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College (Autonomous), Ujire, Karnataka, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.118.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.118
ABSTRACT
Employees faces tremendous work pressure during the corona virus disease 2019 pandemic, which may cause some psychological issues in this population. As a result, the prevalence of such issues in them must be explored. The current study sought to ascertain the level of stress, anxiety, and depression among employees in Kerala, India, during the covid-19 period. A sample survey research design is used in this descriptive study. The study population sample comprised of 100 employees from various private and government sectors in the state of Kerala, India. Samples were chosen using the snowball sampling approach, and they were contacted via various social media channels to participate in the current study. The depression, anxiety, and stress scale (dass-21) scale was used to obtain the necessary data, which is an online questionnaire delivered via google forms. The difference between the anxiety, stress and depression among male and female employees during covid-19 were analyzed using independent sample t test and the relationship between anxiety, stress and depression among employees during covid-19 were analyzed using Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation. The results of independent sample t-test shows that there is a significant difference in the anxiety, stress and depression among male and female employees during covid-19 period and correlation shows that there is a significant relationship between anxiety, stress and depression among employees during covid-19 period.
Keywords
Anxiety, Covid-19, Depression, Employees, Stress, Mental Health
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Sharanya R. S.
Received: August 06, 2021; Revision Received: November 22, 2021; Accepted: December 08, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.118.20210904
10.25215/0904.118
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021