Prevalence of Job stress and its Associated Factors among Universiti Putra Malaysia Staff
Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
;
: 27-38, 2015.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Stress in the work place is a global major risk factor to worker’s health, which triggers the workers to be poorly motivated and less productive.Objectives:
The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of job stress and its associated factors among Universiti Putra Malaysia staff.Methods:
This is a cross sectional study involving 511 academic and non-academic staff of Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang. Probability proportionate to size was used for calculating the required sample size.Results:
The overall prevalence of stress was 21.7% (21.0% among male and 23.0% among female). The variables found to be significantly associated with stress were Job demand, coworker support, depression, anxiety, focus and venting of emotion and self-blame (p<0.05). The findings revealed that UPM staffs are exposed to a range of specific stressors such as work stressor job demand, lack of social support such as co-worker support and supervisor support, psychological stressors such as depression and anxiety, coping such as focus and venting of emotion and self-blame. Work stressor such as job demand was the main predictor of stress (p value = 0.001).Conclusion:
The overall prevalence of job stress was 21.7%. The predictors job stress were job demand, lack of support from co-worker and supervisor, depression, anxiety and use of avoidance focused coping.
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Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Estresse Fisiológico
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo de prevalência
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Estudo prognóstico
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Fatores de risco
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
Ano de publicação:
2015
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