Degree Of Occupational Stress Research Articles

ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS IN SELECTED HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF MURSHIDABAD, WEST BENGAL

Introduction: Occupational stress among teachers results from the working conditions. Stressed out teachers cannot work effectively. Their motivation and job satisfaction are lower, and they exhibit undesirable behaviours.Aim: This study aims to find out school teachers' degree of job satisfaction and occupational stress, to identify correlation between work-related stress, job satisfaction, and association between occupational stress with the selected sociodemographic aspects.Method: In order to ascertain occupational stress and job satisfaction among school teachers in the contemporary, demanding world, the researcher carried out a descriptive survey research on assessment of occupational stress and job satisfaction among teachers in selected higher secondary schools of Murshidabad, West Bengal. The method of non-probability convenience sampling was used to choose 120 school teachers working in selected higher secondary schools of Murshidabad, West Bengal. A semi-structured questionnaire, the Teachers Occupational Stress Scale designed by Sajid Jamal and Abdul Raheem, and the Job Satisfaction Survey created by Paul E. Spector, were used to gather the data.Result: The study result showed that majority of school teachers (92.5%) had moderate/average degree of occupational stress. Most of the school teachers (81.66%) had ambivalent level of job satisfaction. The study also revealed occupational stress and job satisfaction of school teachers’ have a weakly negative correlation which was significant. A chi-square test indicated a significant association between the age of a school teacher and occupational stress. The study has implications for Nursing Research, Nursing Administration, Nursing Practice, and Nursing education and it is recommended for future research study.

Psychological health correlation of express delivery workers' occupational stress in the information logistics environment.

With the promotion of the Internet of Things technology, more and more industries have begun to combine with the Internet of Things technology. After joining the WTO, China’s market economy has continued to deepen. During this period, the e-commerce industry has developed rapidly, which has promoted the rise of the express delivery industry. While the rise of the industry provides jobs for employees, it also brings enormous pressure to employees. Due to the occupational stress of various stressors in the express delivery industry, a series of psychological problems have been caused. “Occupational stress” is also called occupational stress, which refers to the physiological and psychological stress caused by the imbalance between objective needs and personal adaptability in a certain occupational environment. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a correlation study on the psychological health of express delivery workers’ occupational stress in the information logistics environment. It is expected to explore the relationship between occupational stress and mental health of couriers in the context of informatization, so as to provide employees with a better working environment and reduce personal stress. Logistics informatization means that logistics enterprises use modern information technology to collect, classify, transmit, summarize, identify, track, and query all or part of the information generated in the logistics process, so as to realize the control of the flow of goods. This paper analyzed the inventory of express companies, and reasonably analyzed the profit composition of the inventory link, then used a more reasonable time series seasonal coefficient method to predict the amount of incoming shipments. This paper used a combination of theoretical and empirical methods to discuss the psychological health and occupational stress of express delivery workers and to explore the relationship between the two. The experiment results of this paper showed that in the interpersonal sensitivity analysis, the coefficient of occupational stress is 0.052, and the degree of occupational stress is proportional to interpersonal sensitivity. The higher the occupational stress, the higher the interpersonal sensitivity index. The coefficient of occupational stress is-0.31. Occupational stress is inversely proportional to age. The older the age, the lower the interpersonal sensitivity index.

Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction of Public-School Teachers in Distance Education: A Quantitative Analysis

The study focused onOccupational Stress and Job Satisfaction of Public-School Teachers in Distance Education using the descriptive correlational technique. Furthermore, the study will look into whether there was a link between the degree of occupational stress, and levels of job satisfaction among the public-school teachers. The study was conducted in the province of Cebu. The respondents of the study are the 90 teachers selected using the systematic Random sampling method. Moreover, the research instrument used was the 36-item Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) (Schutz and. Long, 1988) and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ-short form) to measure intrinsic and extrinsic job factors of employees. The study yielded that teachers are experiencing some type of stress in the workplace which may be due to the added responsibilities in distance learning. Likewise, despite the stress and the additional obligations brought on by the epidemic, teachers were satisfied with their jobs. In addition, the study found a significant relationship between the Level of Occupational Stress and the Level of Job Satisfaction of Teachers.

Effect of interaction between occupational stress and polymorphisms of MTHFR gene and SELE gene on hypertension.

BackgroundGene-environment interaction is related to the prevalence of hypertension, but the impact of genetic polymorphisms on hypertension may vary due to different geography and population.ObjectiveTo explore the impact of the interaction among occupational stress and MTHFR gene and SELE gene polymorphism on the prevalence of hypertension in Xinjiang oil workers.MethodsA case-control study was conducted on 310 oil workers. In an oilfield base in Karamay City, Xinjiang, 155 hypertensive patients aged 18~60 years old with more than one year of service were selected as the case group, and 155 oil workers without hypertension were selected as the control group according to the 1:1 matching principle (matching conditions: the gender and shift were the same. The age is around 2 years old). The Occupational Stress Scale was used to evaluate the degree of occupational stress, PCR technique was used to detect MTHFR and SELE gene polymorphism, Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the effects of gene and occupational stress on hypertension, and gene-gene and gene-environment interactions were analyzed by generalized multi-factor dimension reduction method.ResultsThe G98T polymorphism of SELE gene (χ2 = 6.776, P = 0.034), the C677T (χ2 = 7.130, P = 0.028) and A1298C (χ2 = 12.036, P = 0.002) loci of MTHFR gene and the degree of occupational stress (χ2 = 11.921, P = 0.003) were significantly different between the case group and the control group. The genotypes GT at the G98T polymorphism of the SELE gene (OR = 2.151, 95% CI [1.227–3.375]), and the dominant model (AC/CC vs AA, OR = 1.925, 95% CI [1.613–3.816]); AC and CC at the A1298C polymorphism of the MTHFR gene (ORAC = 1.917, 95% CI [1.064–3.453]; ORCC = 2.233, 95% CI [1.082–4.609]), the additive model (CC vs AA, OR = 2.497, 95% CI [1.277–4.883]) and the dominant model (AC/CC vs AA, OR = 2.012, 95% CI [1.200–3.373]); at the C677T polymorphism of the MTHFR gene CT and TT (ORCT = 1.913, 95% CI [1.085–3.375]; ORTT = 3.117, 95% CI [1.430–6.795]), the additive model (CC vs AA, OR = 1.913, 95% CI [1.085–3.375]) and the dominant model (AC/CC vs AA, OR = 2.012, 95% CI [1.200–3.373]), which could increase hypertension risk (P < 0.05). The gene-gene interaction showed that there was a positive interaction between the A1298C and C677T sites of the MTHFR gene, and the gene-occupational stress interaction showed that there was a positive interaction between the A1298C and C677T sites of the MTHFR gene and the occupational stress.ConclusionThe interaction of gene mutation and occupational stress in Xinjiang oil workers maybe increase the risk of hypertension.

Association between occupational stress and carotid atherosclerosis among the workers in a steel plant

Objective: To investigate the association between occupational stress and carotid atherosclerosis among the workers in a steel plant. Methods: In October 2018, a total of 2947 workers from a steel plant, who underwent occupational health examination in the center for occupational health examination from March to May 2017, were selected as subjects. Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) were used to investigate the job content and the degree of occupational stress. According to the results of carotid artery examination, the subjects were divided into normal carotid artery group with 2013 workers, increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) group with 277 workers, stable plaque group with 236 workers, and unstable plaque group with 421 workers. A unified questionnaire was distributed to each group, and related physical and biochemical examinations were performed. A multivariate unconditional logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the risk factors for unstable plaque. Results: There were significant differences between the groups in sex, educational level, marital status, work in shifts, smoking, drinking, age, and working years (P<0.05) , while there was no significant difference in exercise between groups (P>0.05) . Based on the JCQ score, 761 (25.8%) had no stress, 959 (32.5%) had mild stress, 699 (23.7%) had moderate stress, and 528 (17.9%) had severe stress; based on the ERI score, 2526 (85.7%) had high effort and low reward and 421 (14.3%) did not have the high-effort and low-reward conditions. There was a significant difference in the composition of JCQ and ERI scores between groups (P<0.05) . Moderate stress (odds ratio [OR]=1.695) , severe stress (OR=5.443) , ERI (OR=7.391) , work in shift (OR=1.784) , old age (OR=1.009) , high systolic blood pressure (OR=1.105) , high fasting blood glucose (OR=1.212) , abnormal total cholesterol (OR=3.693) , abnormal apolipoprotein B (OR=39.215) , and abnormal high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (OR=1.632) were the risk factors for unstable plaque. Conclusion: Occupational stress may be involved in the development of carotid atherosclerosis.

The role of female occupation in severity of alcohol-related problems.

This study investigated whether occupational class is related to the severity of problems associated with alcohol abuse in females. Sixty-six female alcoholic inpatients at a private psychiatric hospital were studied. Of these women, 31 were workers (working at the time of admission), 18 were unemployed workers (unemployed at admission but had worked most of their adult lives), and the remaining 17 were homemakers. Problem severity was assessed for 66 alcoholic women using the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), a standardized clinical interview. A questionnaire assessing the degree of occupational stress experienced was also administered. Employment problem severity ratings from the ASI differed significantly across the three occupation subgroups [F(2,63) = 10.99, p less than .05]; the unemployed workers reported more severe employment problems than did either the workers [t(63) = 3.07, p less than .05] or homemakers [t(63) = 4.77, p less than .05]. There were no significant differences between the three groups on the other five ASI dimensions. A cluster analysis on ASI severity ratings revealed a trend for workers to have family and psychological problems in addition to alcoholism. This seems not to have had an impact on wanting a job change; significantly more homemakers (z = 4.77, p less than .05) and unemployed workers (z = 4.56, p less than .05) than workers wanted a job change.