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(c) The overall indices of role stress and job oatisfact& werefound to be negatively correlated in higher as well as lowerage groups of bank officers.Another study related to bank professionals was conductedby Pattanayak and Mishra (1997). The main objective was toexplore spcc~fically prevalence and determinants of organitatienalclimate, job stress and job strain among the employees in thesemce Kctors. The study revealed that significant differenceswereobserved between banlung and Insurance employees withregard to role confl~ct and experience of Inequity.Mukherjee ( 1997) studled the relatronsh~p betweenorganlutlonal role stress, role efficacy, and organlzatlonal climateamong banking profess~onals. The sample consisted of 71managers which ~ncluded 27 senior level and 44 juntor levelmanagement personnel or a large banhng organuauon.Theyconcluded that. Juntor level managers expenenctd hlgher stresson all the role stress dmenslons as cornpad to senlor levelmanagera. Stgruf~cant differences were observed knwten the twogroups on the dunensions of inter-role &stance. role overload.prmond inadequacy and total role stress.The study by Anrta and Carolyn (1995). tested the effects ofvanou.demographic and soclo-economlc varinbk on perceived