The Relative Study of Gender Roles, and Job Stress and Adversity Quotient

In the era of gender equality, females’ work competency is praised and valued in the modern workplace, and physical gender becomes insignificant. However, does the difference of gender roles influence workers’ performance in the work environment? It is an important question. Hence, this study probed into relationship between gender roles, and job stress, and treats the Adversity Quotient as moderator to determine if and job stress of different gender roles are influenced by the Adversity Quotient and results in a moderating effect. Based on questionnaire survey and analysis of structural equation (AMOS), this study distributed 650 questionnaires and retrieved 566 valid questionnaires. According to analytical results, the differences of gender roles influence job stress. Adversity Quotient has a moderating effect between gender roles and job stress.