Occupational Stress in Central Government Employees Practicing Yoga and Employees Who do not Practice Yoga

The objective of the study was to find out the difference between occupational stress in the employees who are practicing Yoga and those who are not practicing Yoga. The research was conducted in Bangalore. The subjects were employees who worked for Central Government Organization. These are the people who are working either in technical or administrative jobs. A total of 60 samples were collected and evaluated. Out of them 30 were the employees who practiced Yoga for more than a year and 30 employees who had never done yoga.  The collecting of data was done by convenience sampling. The sample collected were residents of the Bangalore city. The tool that was administered on the subjects was The Occupational Stress Index (OSI). The results from the study show that practicing Yoga has been helped in reducing their stress levels. The employees who have been practicing Yoga has been having lower occupational stress whereas the employees who have been never involved in practicing Yoga has been seen to have moderate levels of occupational stress. Thus, the results imply that by practicing Yoga, the levels of stress can be reduced be it in highly stressful place or in jobs that has minimal stress.