Study of Inter-Relationship Between Perceived Workplace Discrimination, Job Stress, Mental Well-Being, And Job Performance of Teachers

Background: This study was planned to investigate the consequences of perceived workplace discrimination on job stress, mental well-being, and teachers' job performance in higher education. A conceptual model was proposed to illustrate the relationship between the study variables. Methodology: A correlational research design was adopted, and convenience sampling was used for data collection of 200 teachers. The participants of this study represented different streams of science and arts and were asked to fill questionnaires to collect relevant information on the subject matter. Results: Results show that (a) workplace discrimination is significantly positively related to perceived job stress, negatively related to mental well-being and overall job performance. Further, stepwise regression analysis shows that perceived job stress, job tenure, and workplace discrimination explain significant contributions (job stress emerged as best predictors of job performance) to the job performance of teachers and while job stress and gender explain significant contributions (job stress again emerged as best predictors of mental well-being) to the mental well-being of teachers. Results have been discussed in light of previous studies.

Sleep Duration, Perceived Job Stress and Risk of Hypertension among Engineering Workers

Abstract@#PT. Y is a company engaged in providing Engineering, Procurement and Construction services for development and maintenance for Oil and Gas Company, which spending most of their valuable time at work. Therefore the workers have a short sleep duration and can affects their quality of health. There have been seven cases of hypertension in PT Y over the past six years (2012-2018). This study aims at examining blood pressure a hypertension risks related to sleep duration and job stress perceived of engineering workers. Methods: A quantitative research using the observational analytic method. The samples were 104 workers engineering workers of PT Y. The research sample is based on sample calculation using the simple random sampling method. Results: Workers with abnormal sleep duration (<6 hours, or> 8 hours) had higher average systolic blood pressure (128.43 ± 7.17) compared to workers having normal sleep duration, (121.51 ± 10.77) with P value < 0.001. The variable of job stress variable showing that respondents who have the perception of experiencing work stress have an average TDS of 127.32 ± 7.84 and a higher TDD of 85.65 ± 6.29 with P value <0.001. For physical activity, there were 70.5% workers who not fit the recommendation had the risk of hypertension but the correlation not statistically significant (p>0.05). Conclusion: There found significant correlation between abnormal sleep duration and job strain which lead to hypertension, and significant differences of systolic and diastolic blood pressure rate.