Role of Collectivism as a Moderator between the Relationship of Organizational Role Stress and Depressive Symptoms among Executives in Private Sector Organizations

By : A. P. Singh , Vinod Kumar Gupta , Anand Prakash Dubey , Anoop Kumar Singh

Page No: 55-63

Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of collectivism as a moderator in the relationship between organizational role stress and depressive symptoms among Executives in Private Sector Organizations. Depressive symptoms among executives lead to decrement in their mental health, and performance as well as production and effectiveness of organizations. The present study was conducted on 210 executives and results reveal that role ambiguity and role conflict (dimensions of organizational role stress), and organizational role stress (total) are significantly positively correlated with depressive symptoms. The results of stepwise multiple regression analysis show that organizational role stress emerges as a significant predictor to influence the depressive symptoms. Results of moderator regression analysis show that collectivism moderates the relationship of organizational role stress and depressive symptoms among executives. The findings of this study will help in reducing the disability, absenteeism, job loss and subsequent unemployment of managers through reducing organizational role stress and managing depressive symptoms.

Authors :
A. P. Singh : Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005.
Vinod Kumar Gupta : Professor, ICMR JRF, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005.
Anand Prakash Dubey : Professor, ICMR JRF, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005.
Anoop Kumar Singh : Research Scholar — Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005.