Assessment of optimism and self-efficacy levels for stress management of farmers in distress prone area

Abstract

The present investigation on Stress Management of Farmers in Distress Prone Area of Vidarbha was conducted purposively in six distress viz, Akola, Buldana, Washim, Amravati, Yavatmal and Wardha as the farmers were committing suicides in these districts during 2017-18. Exploratory and analytical research design was used for the present research. Out of six districts 360 respondents constitute the sample size. The findings with regards to optimism of the respondents in selected districts indicated that maximum number of the respondents (66.39%) were found in medium category of optimism level followed by little less than one fifth of them (19.72%) were falls in low and only 13.89 percent of the respondents were having high optimism level. In the study area most of the respondents (64.72%) were found self-efficacious at medium category followed by little more than one fourth of them (25.28%) were in low self-efficacy level and only one tenth (10.00%) of the respondents were observed in high category of self-efficacy.