Relationship between Job Stress, Job Satisfaction, and Related Factors among Health Center Employees

Autor: Zahra Karimi, Leila Haghshenas, Mehdi Asghari, Gholamheidar Teimori, Rezvan Abedinloo
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Muhandisī-i bihdāsht-i ḥirfah/ī, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 259-266 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2383-3378
Popis: 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
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