Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees
Background and Objective: Job satisfaction and occupational stress are two factors affecting employees’ productivity at the workplace in developed organizations. Occupational stress causes various prevalent physical and psychological effects, which in turn leads to poor job satisfaction. Despite man...
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| author | Zahra Karimi Leila Haghshenas Mehdi Asghari Gholamheidar Teimori Rezvan Abedinloo |
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| description | Background and Objective: Job satisfaction and occupational stress are two factors affecting employees’ productivity at the workplace in developed organizations. Occupational stress causes various prevalent physical and psychological effects, which in turn leads to poor job satisfaction. Despite many studies in this field on health groups, less attention has been paid to health workers. Further research is thus needed to explore and explain how job stress and job satisfaction are related to personal work and organizational factors among health center workers.
Materials and Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was performed from winter 2018 to spring 2019 among health workers of a city in Markazi province, Iran. Data collection tools were demographic and individual characteristics questionnaire, Job Description Index (JDI) questionnaire, and Occupational Stress Questionnaire (OSQ, Davies). Data were analyzed using the SPSS software (version 20).
Results: The results showed that occupational stress is generally higher in women (119/848) than in men (108/122), and women’s job satisfaction (242/450) is lower than that of men (262/682). In addition, there was a negative and significant relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction (r=0.001, P=0.783) at the significance of level P<0.05. Multivariate regression findings also revealed that occupational stress can predict job satisfaction (β=-0.783, P=0.001). Moreover, the highest occupational stress and the lowest job satisfaction were related to healthcare workers.
Conclusion: In general, stress and job satisfaction were obtained at a moderate level in this study, and there was a negative relationship between the two variables. Given that dissatisfaction is mainly seen in the discussion of promotions, salaries, and benefits, it is necessary to take measures to reduce stress, improve economic conditions, and create fair promotion conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-846ade69109c4c8a8862c6f5248a3cc12023-06-17T09:13:33ZfasHamadan University of Medical SciencesMuhandisī-i bihdāsht-i ḥirfah/ī2383-33782023-02-0194259266Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center EmployeesZahra Karimi0Leila Haghshenas1Mehdi Asghari2Gholamheidar Teimori3Rezvan Abedinloo4 Applied Health Sciences, Brock University,Ontario, Canada Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, School of Public Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran Faculty of Health, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences,Hamadan, Iran Background and Objective: Job satisfaction and occupational stress are two factors affecting employees’ productivity at the workplace in developed organizations. Occupational stress causes various prevalent physical and psychological effects, which in turn leads to poor job satisfaction. Despite many studies in this field on health groups, less attention has been paid to health workers. Further research is thus needed to explore and explain how job stress and job satisfaction are related to personal work and organizational factors among health center workers. Materials and Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was performed from winter 2018 to spring 2019 among health workers of a city in Markazi province, Iran. Data collection tools were demographic and individual characteristics questionnaire, Job Description Index (JDI) questionnaire, and Occupational Stress Questionnaire (OSQ, Davies). Data were analyzed using the SPSS software (version 20). Results: The results showed that occupational stress is generally higher in women (119/848) than in men (108/122), and women’s job satisfaction (242/450) is lower than that of men (262/682). In addition, there was a negative and significant relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction (r=0.001, P=0.783) at the significance of level P<0.05. Multivariate regression findings also revealed that occupational stress can predict job satisfaction (β=-0.783, P=0.001). Moreover, the highest occupational stress and the lowest job satisfaction were related to healthcare workers. Conclusion: In general, stress and job satisfaction were obtained at a moderate level in this study, and there was a negative relationship between the two variables. Given that dissatisfaction is mainly seen in the discussion of promotions, salaries, and benefits, it is necessary to take measures to reduce stress, improve economic conditions, and create fair promotion conditions.http://johe.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-821-en.pdfhealth care staffjob satisfactionoccupational stress |
| spellingShingle | Zahra Karimi Leila Haghshenas Mehdi Asghari Gholamheidar Teimori Rezvan Abedinloo Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees Muhandisī-i bihdāsht-i ḥirfah/ī health care staff job satisfaction occupational stress |
| title | Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees |
| title_full | Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees |
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| title_short | Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees |
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