Relationship Between Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study in Malaysia

Azman Ismail (), Amy Yao () and Nek Kamal Yeop Yunus ()
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Azman Ismail: National Defence University Malaysia
Amy Yao: National Defence University Malaysia
Nek Kamal Yeop Yunus: Sultan Idris University of Education, Malaysia

Romanian Economic Journal, 2009, vol. 12, issue 34, 3-30

Abstract: This study was conducted to measure the effect of occupational stress on job satisfaction using 80 usable questionnaires gathered from academic employees in private institutions of higher learning in Kuching City, Malaysia. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to assess the survey questionnaire data and found that the measurement scales met the acceptable standards of validity and reliability analyses. Next, a stepwise regression analysis was used to test the research hypotheses and the outcomes of this regression analysis showed two important findings: first, physiological stress significantly correlated with job satisfaction. Second, psychological stress insignificantly correlated with job satisfaction. This result demonstrates that level of physiological stress has increased job satisfaction, and level of psychological stress had not decreased job satisfaction. Further, the study confirms that occupational stress does act as a partial determinant of job satisfaction in the stress models of the organizational sector sample. In addition, implications and discussion are elaborated.

Keywords: physiological stress; psychological stress; occupational stress; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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