Occupational Stresses and Job Satisfaction

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In a test of the hypothesis that some occupational stresses are desirable and some are not, the relationship between 14 sources of occupational stress and 12 aspects of job satisfaction was studied in 228 males, employed full-time and members of one of three professional associations: professional engineers, industrial accountants, or chartered accountants. The occupational stress index was significantly related to the job satisfaction index—the greater the stresses, the lower the satisfaction. But, when the specific item intercorrelations were examined, a more complicated picture emerged. For instance, about 30 percent of the correlations were in the opposite direction. And, four of the occupational stress items correlated in the opposite direction with all or nearly all of the job satisfaction items. Thus, certain types of occupational stresses, primarily associated with enlarged or demanding jobs, were positively related to employee job satisfaction.

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