A Survey of Stress Management Among Working-Age People in Bangkok Caused Due to Corona Virus Disease 2010 (COVID-19)

Abstract

This research aimed to study stress and stress management including seeing the relationship between stress and stress management among working age people affected by Covid-19 pandemic. The research was conducted among 407 people in Bangkok. A questionnaire was used as the research instrument and statistics were used for data analysis. According to the study, it was found that people had a moderate level of stress caused by Covid-19 and were most anxious about threats at a high level, followed by challenges and harm/loss at a moderate level. Overall stress management was at a high level for 2 aspects, i.e. problem-focuses coping strategies and emotion-focused coping strategies. 

Hypothesis testing results showed that working age people in Bangkok, 1) gender and educational level are different having there were no statistically statistical differences in stress management among working age people in Bangkok, 2) overall stress management in people with different ages was not different but there were statistically statistical differences in emotion-focused coping among people aged 26-35 years and people aged 36-45 years, 3) there were no statistically significance differences in overall stress management among people with different monthly income, at 0.05 but there were statistically differences in emotion-focused coping among people with monthly income 15,000-25,000 baht and people with monthly income higher than 25,000 baht, 4) there were statistically significance differences in overall and each aspect of problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping among people working in different industries. And 5) working age people in Bangkok had stress and stress management with positive relationship at a moderate level. As soon as they have stress, they have a method to manage stress in the same direction. When they are more stressed, they will have more methods for stress management accordingly.