objectives: the present study was designed to investigate the effects of job satisfaction and mental health on job stress and the balancing effects of hardiness and availability of social support network in a group of medical staff. method: two hundred of surgery room staff were studied by utilizing a low-high social support network index, operating room stress factor index questionnaire, life ...

context: nursing is a stressful job that could create physical and psychological disorders. many studies presented information on stress, effects of coping strategies, and job satisfaction of nurses within health setting. we aimed to identify and describe nursing stresses, coping strategies and job satisfaction of iranian nurses who are working or worked in different wards. evidence acquisition...

organizational commitment has been defined as the extent that an individual accepts, internalizes, and views his or her role based on organizational values and goals. the three components –affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment– form the basis of a new conceptualization of organizational commitment. job stress has become one of the most serious health issues in t...

The question “Does work-family conflict influence small business executives’ job satisfaction and is this relationship moderated by job stress?” was examined using a sample of 67 top executives from small businesses. Support was not found for increased job stress or decreased job satisfaction as a result of family interfering with work. However, work-family conflict was found to have a negative...

conclusions the results of the study provided valuable guidelines for the researchers and managers trying to increase organizational commitment. findings indicated that even with the pressures and challenges in the midwifery profession, midwives can still be committed and engaged by enhancing their job satisfaction and decreasing occupational stress. background stress and job dissatisfaction ha...

background : occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. recently, staff network of different government universities of thailand have called higher education commission, and ministry of education, thailand to resolve the issue of gov-ernment education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor...

Aims. This study examines mood and cardiovascular variables related to job stress and burnout in hospital personnel. Main Methods. 400 nurses and physicians from a children's hospital in China were recruited. Participants completed job stress, burnout, and mood state questionnaires. Cardiovascular variables such as body mass index (BMI), triglyceride (TG), and high density lipoprotein (HDL) wer...

nowadays, occupational accidents are one of the most important problems in developing countries. job stress and unsafe acts have been also recognized as effective factors in increasing the risk of occupational accidents. the main goal of this research was to evaluate the relationship between job stress and unsafe acts with occupational accidents. this study was performed on 195 employees in par...

The quest to obtain job satisfaction is not an easy task. Most of the time it will comes together with job stress. Managing and handling job stress is a must and it is a challenging task. Able to control job stress will increase the productivity while failure to manage will lead to many problems in the workplace. A challenging career as an engineer usually leads to many types of job stress. Job...

the goal of this study was to assess the result of solution- based group counseling in reducing job stress in the female employees of the educational foundation  of ghalamchi in 2009.the target group included the entire female employees of that foundation. a group of 24 women were selected  and  randomly grouped as the control and experimental groups. the data was collected using pillip l-rice`...