Mediating effect of township leaders' perceived organizational support on occupational stress and job satisfaction / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the job satisfying degree of township leaders and to explore the mediating effect of perceived organizational support on occupational stress and job satisfaction.METHODS: A total of 1 545 township leaders from Huludao City,Fengcheng City and Fushun City in Liaoning Province were selected as study subjects by cluster random sampling method.The questionnaire of Effort-Reword Imbalance,the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Perceived Organizational Support were used to investigate their occupational stress,job satisfaction and perceived organizational support.RESULTS: The total score of occupational stress in township leaders was(66.1 ± 6.8),and job satisfaction was(71.1 ± 13.1).The score of perceived organizational support was(42.2 ± 9.9).Occupational stress and perceived organizational support had direct prediction role on job satisfaction(P<0.01).The mediation effect of perceived organizational support between occupational stress and job satisfaction was 0.190,accounting for 48.3% of the total effect.CONCLUSION: Organizational support plays a part of mediating role on occupational stress and job satisfaction.