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Background : The individual is devised the basic necessities. They cannot cope effectively with the demands of the social environment. Because of socio-economic inequality, social interaction, negatives, lack of motivation will definitely have high impact on the positive people live the healthy life. And it is more evident and visible in the Indian context, where sizeable part of the population is suffering from lot of SES and cultural handicaps and the HIV people in India are not exception to this phenomenon, therefore, an attempt is made to study the impact of SES status on the life stress and adjustmental problems on HIV positive patients. Objectives : To examine the contribution of life stress and adjustment to adverse SES events. Methods : To meet the objective of the present study the data was collected at Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur and Belgum (Karnataka) District ICTC and NGOs centres, by personally interviewed the each clients by help of inventory SES scale, life stress and adjustment inventory. Stage - 1: SES scale was administered to the total 600 respondents to categorize them into the low SES groups (200) and high SES groups (200) taking the first and third quartile as cut off points respectively. Stage -2 : Life stress scale and adjustment inventory were administered an the groups of high SES and Low SES. The response were scored and terminated. Results: The results reflects the SES of life stress of HSES and LSES of t-value is 3.95, (significant at 0.01 level) Male & Female of t-value of life stress M/F is 3.00 (significant at 0.01 level). Another scale adjustment of M/F t-value is 11.53 (significant at 0.01 level). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has two main objectives. The first is to examine the extent of stress, negative mental health outcomes and variations in mood states experienced by shift workers (N= 100) and a control group of day workers (N= 100) employed in Feeder Balancing Dairy, Ramnagar Varanasi and Kanpur, Dugdth Utpadak Sahakari Sangh (brand name Parag, Ltd. for both organisations). Second, to find out the relative contribution of stress variables and mood states in the prediction of mental health outcomes separately for both shift workers and a control group of day workers. Our overall findings concur with other studies and provide evidence that shift workers significantly experienced higher levels of job and life stress, higher indices of negative mental health outcomes (as measured by GHQ -- 28) and variations in mood states as compared to day workers. The results of the present study established some significant relationships between stress and negative mental health outcomes among both shift and day group of workers. However, the magnitude of correlation coefficients is slightly higher in the day worker group. For both groups of workers significant positive correlations were found between all the dimensions of negative mental health and mood states of tense arousal, anger, energetic arousal and general arousal. The findings of step-wise multiple regression analysis indicated that amount of life stress and role conflicts were the two major predictors of negative mental health outcomes among shift workers. The results of a similar analysis carried out on day workers indicated that in the prediction of mental health of day workers, job related stressors (role ambiguity, role conflict and role overload) played a significant role. The findings further indicated that shift workers' mood states such as anger, tense arousal and hedonic tone were also significant predictors of mental health outcomes. In day group of workers, anger coupled with low level of energetic arousal influenced their mental health. It is interesting to note, however, that in both groups of workers anger was the strongest predictor of all indices of negative mental health outcomes. Thus, the present study adds additional support to the notion that shift and night shift work is a potent source of stress. Shift work is opposed to the human circadian system and this conflict creates multiple physiological, psychological and psychosocial problems for shift workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]