Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (Online) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (Print) Volume 8, Issue 2, April- June, 2020 DIP: 18.01.222/20200802, DOI: 10.25215/0802.222 http://www.ijip.in © 2020, Khan. I; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A comparative study of perceived stress and job satisfaction among nursing staff Imran Khan 1 * ABSTRACT The prime aim of the present study was to assess the level of perceived stress and job satisfaction among public and private hospital nurses. The study was conducted on a purposive sample of 100 nurses (50 from public hospital and remaining 50 from private hospital) drawn from COVID-19 hotspot cities of Bihar such as Siwan, Saran and Gopalganj. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) developed by David Goldberg (1978) was applied for screening purpose. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) developed by Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelstein (1983) was employed to assess the level of perceived stress of nursing staff of public and private hospitals. Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) developed by Paul E. Spector (1985) was administered to measure the level of job satisfaction among nursing staff of public and private hospitals. Analyses of the data revealed that nursing staff from public hospitals perceived more stress in comparison to private hospital nursing staff. Results also revealed that public hospitals nursing staff experienced more job satisfaction than private hospital nursing staff. Keywords: Covid-19, Perceived Stress, Job Satisfaction, Public Hospitals Nursing Staff, Private Hospitals Nursing Staff Stress is an integral ingredient of modern lifestyle. It pervades in every spheres of life. Therefore, WHO described stress as a “worldwide epidemic” (World Health Organization, 2000). It is an internal state which is caused by physical demands of the body or by environmental and social situations which are assessed as potentially harmful, uncontrollable or exceeding our resources for coping. Stress can be described as a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the person and the environment. Selye defined stress as “response state of organism to force acting simultaneously on body which, if excessive, i.e., straining the capacity of adaptive processes beyond their limits, led to diseases of exhaustion and death” (Selye,1976). Socio-economic factors, occupational burden, excessive workload, emotional disturbances, etc., have compelled to bear the burden of modern lifestyle which resulted in intolerable level of stress. Stress may operate alone or combine in groups and demonstrate their repercussions at different stages of life (Croucher et al., 1997) 1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, D.A.V. Post Graduate College,Siwan-841226. *Responding Author Received: April 22, 2020; Revision Received: May 15, 2020; Accepted: May 25, 2020