An empirical study on demographical factors affecting the anxiety levels of managers

Anxiety disorder is described as worry and fear depending on an unknown cause. Anxiety disorder causes comedowns in the life qualities of managers; both in social and working lives. For that reason, this is important for business managers. In this study, anxiety levels and psychological symptoms of manager-level workers are studied on whether they differ with demographics or not. The study is made with low, mid and high level working managers of a large-scale institutional organization that work in Mersin province. The simple of this study is made with 200 managers; and sample is made choice with convenience sampling. Managers from different levels are given a demographic questionnaire that consists of 8 questions. Psychological Symptom Scan Test (SCL 90-R) is applied to define the psychological disorders and Beck Anxiety Inventory that consists of 21 questions is applied to identify the anxiety levels. In conclusion, a positive correlation between the anxiety levels and psychological symptom levels (somatisation, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid, psychotism) is present. Working hours, marital status, position and gender from demographics and anxiety levels have a significant difference in between. It has been resulted with this study that anxiety levels and psychological symptoms are low in managers.