title: Nature of job and psychiatric problems: the experiences of industrial workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study aimed to examine the effect of nature of job (High risk/low risk) on psychiatric problems of 200 workers of Tata Motors Ltd. in Jamshedpur. The workers/participants were divided on the basis of the nature of their job (high/low risk) and their salary (high/low paid) resulting in four sub-groups with 50 participants respectively s.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q) constructed by Crown and Crisp (1966) and adapted in Hindi by Srivastava and Bhat in 1974 was administered on the participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results clearly indicated that nature of job (high and low risk) played a significant role in creating psychiatric problems in workers. Workers doing high risk jobs showed a greater amount of psychiatric problems compared to workers doing low risk jobs in both high paid and low paid categories. Psychiatric problems included free-floating anxiety, obsessional traits and symptoms, phobic anxiety, somatic concomitants of anxiety, neurotic depression, and hysterical personality traits were seen more in high risk job workers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  High risk job workers had significantly higher psychiatric problems compared to low risk job workers.
authors.forename: Syed Khalid
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Perwez
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khalique
authors.affiliation: VIT University, Vellore. ramaseshan.h@vit.ac.in.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ramaseshan
authors.forename: T N V R
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Swamy
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mansoor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009790:Occupations; D012307:Risk Factors; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires