Enquiry Areas of Role Stress Scale

Mean of Sample Group

Public Sector Managers

Private Sector Managers

Junior

Senior

Overall

Junior

Senior

Overall

Mean

Rank

Mean

Rank

Mean

Rank

Mean

Rank

Mean

Rank

Mean

Rank

Inter Role Distance (IRD)

11.10

6

11.40

10

11.25

7

11.18

10

9.02

9

10.10

10

Role Stagnation (RS)

12.02

4

11.58

9

11.80

6

12.76

5

11.28

6

12.02

5

Role Expectation Conflict (REC)

13.44

3

13.40

3

13.42

3

11.66

7

11.38

5

11.52

6

Role Erosion (RE)

11.42

5

12.88

4

12.15

5

13.20

3

12.14

4

12.67

4

Role Overload (RO)

14.88

2

15.50

2

15.19

2

17.52

2

15.10

2

16.31

2

Role Isolation (RI)

9.22

8

12.68

5

10.95

8

11.30

9

9.00

10

10.15

9

Personal Inadequacy (PI)

9.82

7

12.44

6

13.11

4

12.96

4

12.50

3

12.73

3

Self-Role Distance (SRD)

14.94

1

15.90

1

15.42

1

17.66

1

15.58

1

16.62

1

Role Ambiguity (RA)

7.84

9

12.24

8

10.04

9

12.16

6

9.64

8

10.90

7

Resource Inadequacy (RIN)

7.60

10

12.38

7

9.99

10

11.34

8

9.68

7

10.51

8