The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 3, Issue 4, No. 56, DIP: 18.01.013/20160304 ISBN: 978-1-365-23992-2 http://www.ijip.in | July-September, 2016 © 2016 I B Dey, A Rahman, S Sultana, S sadaf; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Garments Worker’s Job Stress and Mental Health Biplob Kumar Dey 1 *, Abdur Rahman 2 , Mst. Sabiha Sultana 3 , Sahila Sadaf 4 ABSTRACT The present study attempted an empirical investigation to explore the job stress and mental health of garment workers as a function of gender and salary. A total of 120 respondents constituted the sample of the study were selected purposively of Chittagong district Bangladesh. Among them 60 workers were male (20 were salary ranges of 4000-8000├, 20 were salary ranges of 8100-12000├ and 20 were salary ranges of above 12000├) and 60 workers were female (20 were salary ranges of 4000-8000├, 20 were salary ranges of 8100-12000├ and 20 were salary ranges of above 12000├). An adapted Bengali version (Rahman and Sorcar, 1990) of ‘Job Stress’ scale and Bengali version (Sorcar and Rahman, 1989) of “Mental Health” scale were used. Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings of the present study showed that female workers had significantly more job stress (F=72.07, df =1, p<.00) than male workers and lowest salary ranges workers had significantly more job stress (F=20.78, df =2, p<.00) than highest salary ranges workers. No significant interaction effect found between gender and salary according to job stress. On the other hand, gender had no significant effect on mental health and highest salary ranges workers had significantly more mental health (F =5.71, df =2, p<.00) than lowest salary ranges workers. No significant interaction effect found between gender and salary according to mental health. Results also showed that job stress was negatively correlated (r = - .35, p<.01) with mental health. Keywords: Garment Workers, Job Stress, Mental Health. Nobody can deny that jobs and careers are paramount part and parcel of our lives. A person who works in garments is called garment workers. Someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments products is called garment workers. Someone says that the persons who makes or mends dresses in the factory or garment industry is called garment workers. In another sense, 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. 3 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. 4 Ms Students, Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. *Responding Author