Workplace Stressors and Coping Strategies of

Female Reporters in Pakistan

FAKIHA KHAN
F2009-032
Session: 2009-2013

Supervisors: Dr. Ruhi Khalid

Dr. Farhat Nadeem

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY
BEACONHOUSE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Workplace Stressors and Coping Strategies of Female Reporters in Pakistan

Submitted to Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

In partial fulfillment of the requirements
For the award of degree of

B.Sc. (Hons.) Applied Psychology

FAKIHA KHAN
SESSION: 2009-2013
ROLL NO. F-2009-032

INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY
BEACONHOUSE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH COMPLETION CERTIFICATE

It is hereby certified that Ms. Rmaa Touqeer of BSc. Hons (2009-2013) has carried out this
research titled Emotional Intelligence and Empathy among Doctors treating breast cancer
patients in Pakistan under the supervision of Dr. Farhat Nadeem and Dr. Ruhi Khalid.

Dr. Farhat Nadeem

Dr. Ruhi Khalid

Supervisors

Approval/Rejected

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Supervisor

External Examiner

--------------------------------------------------Director of Institute of Psychology

DECLARATION

I, Ms. Fakiha Khan, Roll No. 2009-032, student of B.Sc. in the subject of Applied Psychology,
session 2009 - 2013, hereby declare that the matter printed in the group research titled
Workplace Stressors and Coping Strategies of Female Reporters In Pakistan is my own work
and has not been printed, published and submitted as research work, thesis or publication in any
form in any University, Research institution etc in Pakistan or abroad.

Dated: ________________________

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Signature of Deponent

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
All praise is for Allah, the Most Merciful Most Kind. I am humbly grateful to Allah the
Almighty for giving me the energy to complete the task of completing this research.
Special thanks are extended to my supervisors, Dr. Ruhi Khalid and Dr. Farhat Nadeem, for their
invaluable supervision and advice for the completion of this paper.
Grateful appreciation is also offered to Rabia Noor, Nadia Bukhari and Shumaila Jaffery for their
help in obtaining the sample studied in this paper.
I am also obliged to my family and friends to helped me complete my research. At the end I
would like to express my appreciation to the participants who took out time and cooperated with
me on this research.

ABSTRACT
With all the recent advancement in media sector, then news channels have also gone a
revolution phase. News channels are now the first source of information for the majority of
Pakistani people. Individuals working as journalist have no choice but to keep up to date with all
the happenings around the world. In the present study 10 female reporters from different
channels in Lahore were interviewed about their occupational stressors and how they coped with
them. The present study examined and identified problems faced by female reporters and suggest
ways and means for resolving their problems besides pointing out future prospects for this vital
segment of the society. Through this study solutions can be put forward for consideration of the
organizations and institutions working with or on women rights and development. The study
proposes to determine the problems faced by women working as reporters and how they cope up
with such problems.

Table of Contents
Abstract
1.Introduction ................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Empowerment ............................................................................................................................2
1.2 Traditional profession....3
1.3 Non-traditional profession.........3
1.4 Journalist....4
1.5 Reporters4
1.6 Occupational Stress....5
1.7 Coping Strategies...6
1.8 Statement of Problem.8
1.9 Rationale8
1.10 Objective of Study..8
2. Literature Review..9
2.1 Hypothesis13
3. Methodology.14
3.1 Study design .............................................................................................................................14
3.2 Study settings ...........................................................................................................................14
3.3 sampling technique ..................................................................................................................14
3.3 Participants...15
3.5 Measures..16
3.6 Operational Definitions16
3.7 Data collection.16
3.8 Procedure.17
3.9 Analysis17
4. Results...18
5. Discussion.....26

Conclusion....27
Limitations....31
References....32
6. Appendix A34
6.1 Appendix B..38
6.2Appendix C...40