| Summary: | Journalist is one of the professions with high stress levels. The cause,
among others, is the demand from the editors to produce an exclusive story in
high degree of accuracy. Journalists, especially those who are working for daily
print media (newspaper), also have to deal with the pressure of deadline every
day. However, stress doesn't always means something negative, as for some
people stress can become a driving force to increase the motivation and the
inspiration to work harder. Therefore although considered to have high levels of
stress, a lot of people are sticking with the profession as a journalist.
Every person gives a different reaction in response to the same stress. The
stress perception of each person is influenced by many factors, such as the
perception to the leadership style in the organization and the characteristic of
respective individual personality. The leadership style of serving (Servant
Leadership) initiated by Robert K. Greenleaf in his book titled The Servant as
Leader published in 1970 has become a new revolution in the concept of
leadership and is considered to keep relevant up to now.
This study aims to find out the correlation between the perception of the
leadership style of serving (Servant Leadership) applied by the chief editors and
the working stress suffered by the journalists, also to determine whether the
personality types, the big five of Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,
Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience, affect the working stress to the
journalists. The study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 95
journalists from two newspapers in Jakarta namely Investor Daily and Koran
Sindo. The result of the study shows negative correlation between the leadership
style of serving (Servant Leadership) applied by the chief editors and the working
stress of the journalists. In the meantime, among the five personality types, the
Neuroticism and Agreeableness shows positive correlation to the stress, while the
Extroversion, the Conscientiousness, and the Openness to Experience show
negative correlation to the stress.
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