Psychological Well Being, Resilience and Job Attitude among Health Professionals: A comparative study between Government and Private Doctors

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Jomon Joy, Shanmukh Vasant Kamble

Increasing job responsibilities, multitasking, need to adept self with emerging technologies, severer consumer

rights along with job insecurities and a competitive workplace make health care a challenging sphere to work in.

Numbers of factors are associated with the health and helping professions, including time pressures, workload, having multiple roles, and

emotional issues. The present study examined whether there are differences in job- attitudes, resilience and Psychological well-being among

physicians working in private sector and government sector.This study was conducted among 400 doctors (200 doctors from Government

hospital and 200 doctors from private hospital) working in different hospitals in Kerala. Result of the study indicates that the doctors from

the government and private organizations significantly differ in their psychological wellbeing, job attitude and resilience.