A field study of 109 information systems (IS) managers explores the relationship among organizational characteristics, job satisfaction, and work stress. The results indicate that work overload is the major source of perceived IS work stress, followed by role conflict, job-induced anxiety, and then role ambiguity. Four organizational contextual factors--IS climate, clarity and sharing of organi...

This survey study identifies the correlations between types of perceived stress, exhaustion, and job satisfaction in a sample of 149 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed using the Pearson's correlation analysis, t-test, oneway ANOVA, and Tukey’s HSD test. Significant positive correlations were found between stress-sensitive perception and exhaustion, and between stressresistant perception and jo...

BACKGROUND Nicotine dependence and its severity are often determined by individuals' psychosocial factors.This study purposed to analyze how Korean workers' job stress is related with their nicotine dependence according to demographic and occupational characteristics in order to reduce smoking related to job stress and to establish objective indicators to be used in developing adequate smoking ...

BACKGROUND In recent years, job stress has been cited as a risk factor for some diseases. OBJECTIVES Given the importance of this subject, we established a new model for classifying job stress among Iranian male staff using path analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was done on male staff in Tehran, Iran, 2013. The participants in the study were selected using a proport...

This paper examines mental and physical pressures that workers bear at work. The authors discuss how on the-job stress affects a person's capabilities and productivity, and how such pressures lend to higher incidences of accidents at work. The paper also discuss methods of reducing job-related stress and increasing productivity. An intervention was conducted amongst workers in a private firm. I...

Some immunological biomarkers have been reported to be associated with job-related stress. This study was conducted to explore the intercorrelation between the psychosocial components of job stress and various immunological biomarkers among female nurses. To assess monthly and weekly job stress, 41 nurses have repeatedly completed questionnaires such as the National Institute for Occupational S...

There have been few formal studies on stress in veterinary surgeons and, in the rare studies available, stress is not examined jointly through the levels of job strain and job engagement, the sources of stress in the issue of work environment and the work-home interference. The authors' goal in this study was to analyse job engagement, job strain, burnout, work-home interference and job stress ...

This study examined Job Burnout, Job stress, and Coping strategies among early childhood education teachers in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study employed the descriptive research design. One hundred and fifty (150) teachers were randomly sampled to participate in the study. Instruments used in the study were Job Burnout Scale (JBS), Job Stress Scale (JSS) and Coping Str...

Objective: To examine the prevalence of mental health disorder and its related factors among Thai nurses. Material and Method: This was cross-sectional descriptive study of 390 female nurses. They were asked to complete the questionnaire which covered personal history, working conditions, job stress and general health. Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratio (OR) for me...

The aim of the study was to test the relationship between job characteristics (job demands, job control) and perceived stress (e.g., stressed, pressured, tense) with motivators (e.g., recognition, achievement, the work itself, the possibility for growth and work significance) as the mediating variable. In this cross-sectional study a web-based questionnaire survey was conducted among 380 inform...