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Prevalence of stress and its associated factors among university staff


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Mukosolu, Okonkwo and Ibrahim, Faisal and Gyanchand Rampal, Lekhraj Rampal and Ibrahim, Normala (2015) Prevalence of stress and its associated factors among university staff. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 11 (1). pp. 27-38. ISSN 1675-8544

Abstract

Introduction: Stress in the work place is a global major risk factor to worker’s health, which triggers the workers to be poorly motivated and less productive. Objectives: The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of job stress and its associated factors among Universiti Putra Malaysia staff. Methods: This is a cross sectional study involving 511 academic and non-academic staff of Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang. Probability proportionate to size was used for calculating the required sample size. Results: The overall prevalence of stress was 21.7% (21.0% among male and 23.0% among female).The variables found to be significantly associated with stress were: Job demand, coworker support, depression, anxiety, focus and venting of emotion and self-blame (p<0.05). The findings revealed that UPM staffs are exposed to a range of specific stressors such as work stressor: job demand, lack of social support such as co-worker support and supervisor support, psychological stressors such as depression and anxiety, coping such as focus and venting of emotion and self-blame. Work stressor such as job demand was the main predictor of stress (p value = 0.001). Conclusion: The overall prevalence of job stress was 21.7%. The predictors job stress were job demand, lack of support from co-worker and supervisor, depression, anxiety and use of avoidance focused coping.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Publisher: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords: Job stress; Prevalence of stress; Stress associated factors; University staff
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 14 May 2018 09:09
Last Modified: 14 May 2018 09:09
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/45991
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