Literature Review of Occupational Stress and Coping Mechanism With Reference to Gender

Gender-specific Coping Mechanisms for Occupational Stress

Abstract

Stress has been a common factor affecting all aspects of life includinginterpersonal relationships, work, school, and family. Coping strategies play acritical role in an individual’s physical and psychological well-being whenfaced with challenges and negative events. Also, coping can be viewed as anapproach driven to manage goals and utilize social resources such as co-workerand family support to achieve one’s goals. This paper focuses coping mechanismand occupational stress specific to gender.