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Stress and Coping Techniques of Female Bank Staff in Kogi State, Nigeria
Authors: Lateef Omotosho Adegboyega, Falilat Anike Okesina, Ayuba Olawale Hammed
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Stress refers to pressure, tension or
worries arising from problematic situations in an
individual’s life, this study investigates stress and
coping techniques of female bank staff in Kogi State,
Nigeria. The research design adopted for this study is
the descriptive survey. A total of 586 respondents
were randomly selected from various banks in Kogi
state, Nigeria. And were given copies of the stress and
coping techniques of female bankers in Kogi State,
questionnaire to fill, the questionnaire which was
patterned after a Four-point Likert Type scoring
procedure format. The data which emanated from the
respondents was analysed by Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA). The result showed that when a female bank
staff is being transferred to other branches far from
home, competition among colleagues and many
deadlines to meet were the sources of stress and
eating of adequate balance diet, taking out time to
visit a friend and doing periodic health check-up as
the coping techniques of female bank staff. It was
recommended that the banks management should
endeavour to employ more staff probably on part-time
basis to ease the target set for the staff, counselling
unit should also be provided in the banking industry to
help the staff and management in understanding stress
and how to cope with it. Counsellors in the banking
sector could equip the staff with stress reduction
techniques or strategies and how to adjust working
between conditions in banks. Married staff most
especially the women should be exempted from
spending long hours at work.