Impact of Some Psychological Factors on Stressful Behaviour

Stress is burning topic of modern era. Large population of world is suffering from stress and is affecting the physical and Psychological health. Psychologists have mentioned that stress is originated due to insufficient balance between person's need, capability and the environmental demands. It is also an universal fact that, facing a similar environmental/situational demands some people feels more stress and some feels less stress. The present study is aimed to see, whether the personality factor or makeup is responsible for stressful behaviour ? The study was conducted on a sample of 40 students of M.A. semester- II of P.G. centres located at Ara headquarter town of Bhojpur district of Bihar. The sample consisted of 50% male and 50% female respondents and their age range was 21-23 years from all the three categories-high, middle & lower SES, selected through incidental-cum-purposive sampling technique. In present study stressful behaviour was dependent variable while respondent's Thpe A/B behavioural pattern & hardy personality were independent variables. Singh Personal Stress source Inventory (pssi), Type A/B Behavioural pattern (ABBPs) Hindi version by Dhar & Jain and Singh Psychological hardiness Scale (SPHS) was used as tools of the study. To analyse the obtained data, t-ratio was computed. Conclusion emerged that- Type A/B behavioural pattern and Hardy personality have significant impact upon stressful behaviour.