Several studies on job stress have been conducted among nurses, teachers, clerks, lecturers, laboratory technicians, petroleum and automotive workers and the calculated prevalences ranged from 20-35%; associated factors identified include high job demand, low job control and poor social support. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of stress ...

This paper investigates the interaction of perceived accountability on the politics perceptions-job stress relationship. From a sample of working adults, findings indicate that (1) individuals perceiving organizational politics and high levels of accountability reported more quality concern stress and job vs. non-job conflict, and (2) individuals perceiving organizational politics and low level...

Currently Bankers are under a great transaction of stress and due to many backgrounds of stress such as Excess, Role doubt, Role conflict, Concern for people, Contribution, Lack of feedback, possession up with rapid technologicalchange. Being in an inventive role, Career development, Organizational structure and climate, and recent episodic events. The thing which find out is stress. This study...

Long-term care nursing staff are subject to considerable occupational stress and report high levels of burnout, yet little is known about how stress and social support are associated with burnout in this population. The present study utilized the job demands-resources model of burnout to examine relations between job demands (occupational and personal stress), job resources (sources and functio...

Aims and method To identify correlates between burnout and job stress of care staff at Leros PIKPA Asylum. Forty-nine asylum employees were assessed by Maslach's Burnout Inventory, a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale and the Job Content Questionnaire. Results Emotional exhaustion is related negatively to social support (P = 0.010, r = -0.362). Lack of job achievements i...

The occupational health area is developing models with a variety of methods to address and prevent job stress at the organization-level. A review of literature on employee assistance program (EAP) was conducted to explore relevant methods from its perspective. Result reveals that EAP is a potential good partner in the efforts to prevent Job stress at organization-level. Keywords-job stress; str...

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...