This study aimed at relating socio-demographics of people and their life event stressors to
psychosomatic disorders or symptoms they have experienced or suffered during their day to day living.
The respondents were 1631 public servants systematically sampled in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger-Delta
region of the Federation which has nine out of the thirty-six States. Their socio-demographics included:
sex, age, residence, marital status, educational and economic status. Two measuring Psychometric
tools: Holmes and Rahe’s Life Event Inventory (modified) and Omoluabi’s Psychophysiologocal
symptoms checklist were used. The data generated was statistically analyzed using the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences version 11. The result show that stressors do cause somatic symptoms
but the nature and pattern of psychosomatic symptoms and diseases depends on socio-demographics
such as sex, age, marital status, residence and economic conditions. It was concluded that therapeutic
measures should be anchored on socio-demographics in order to alleviate or eliminate psychosomatic
disorders.