Work- Pressure and Somatic Complaints among Nigeria Bank Workers
Ekwo Jude C1. & Mgbenkemdi E. H2
Department of Psychology
Faculty of the Social Sciences
Enugu State University of Technology, Agbani-Enugu State
Email: iamejike@esut.edu.ng
Corresponding author: Mgbenkemdi E. H2
ABSTRACT
This study investigated work pressure and somatic complaints among Nigeria bank workers. Using criterion sampling technique. 90 bank workers comprising 47 males and 43 females bank workers from 3 commercial banks and 3 community banks in Enugu metropolis were drawn to participate in the study. The bank workers were within the ages of 25-55 years. Job related tension scale (Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, & Snoek, (1964) to measure work pressure and Enugu somatization scale (Ebigbo, 1981; Ebigbo, et al, 2016) to measure somatic complaints were administered individually to the participants. A correlational design and statistics were used for data collection and analysis to test the hypotheses which stated that work-pressure would not significantly correlate with both frequency and intensity of somatic complaints among bank workers. The results showed a low negative correlation -.044 on frequency of somatization (n = 90); and a low positive correlation .092 on intensity of somatization (n = 90) between work pressure and somatic complaints. It was suggested that other variables capable of influencing somatic complaints should be studied since a negative correlation was established on frequency and a positive correlation was established on intensity, with strong implication on frequency of symptom manifestation.
Keywords: Work- pressure, Somatic Complaints and Bank workers.
