Impact of life events and gender difference on the quality of coping strategy and level of job satisfaction among the private sector employees of India: An in-depth psychological analysis

The present study focuses on the impact of life events and gender difference in job satisfaction among the employees of private sector of India. Attempts were also made to assess their coping style along with its all dimensions. The sample size was 350 divided into 2 groups (male- 175 and female- 175). Each group was consisted respondents age ranging between 22-35 years and having minimum 2 years of job experience. The data were collected from several private sub-sectors (IT sector, BPO sector, social development sector, educational sector, cultural sector, marketing sector and banking sector) of India and the sample size of each sub-sector was 50 (male-25 and female-25). Presumptive live event scale, Job satisfaction scale, and coping checklist II were administered to assess the life events, job satisfaction and quality of coping style of the employees of the private sector. It is revealed that female employees were found to be more satisfied than male employees in their job. No significant gender difference has been revealed in the selected variables except in social support as a domain of coping strategy. Furthermore, no significant correlation has been found between the predictor variables and criterion variables and finally the investigation of the present study reveals that life events and gender difference has no impact on the coping style and level of job satisfaction among the employees of private sector of India.