Work Stress & Family Imbalance in Service Sector of Pakistan
Sarwar, Aamir, Aftab, Hira

ABSTRACT
This study aimed at quantifying the relationship between two variables i.e. Work stress and family imbalance. Study conducted was exploratory and correlational. Pakistan has a strong banking system as compared to other service sectors, which consists of different institutes ranging from State bank of Pakistan to a wide variety of commercial banks. Reasons of stress were studied among 500 middle level managers working in banks and then their affect on an individual and his/her family members was studied. Main objective of the study was to explore the relationship between work stress and family imbalance. The questionnaire was distributed among 500 middle level managers of banks via multi stage random sampling. SPSS version 15.0 was used to perform T-Test, Correlation, Man-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Regression analysis. Strong positive relationship was observed between work stress and family imbalance, Regression analysis shows that 64.80% of variation in family imbalance is because of work stress.

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