Study Of Occupational Stress On Physical And Mental Health And Job Satisfaction Of Employees

The focus on the present study was to test and extend Karasek's Job demands-control stress model appropriate for explaining the effects of psychological job stressors on job satisfaction via psychosomatic health. The study was carried out among 300 full-time employees in Shanghai. Below are the results:1. The high job demands and low control were significantly related with psychosomatic problems and low job satisfaction respectively. But there were no interactive effects between job demands and control. Poor organizational structure was positively related with low job satisfaction. However, poor job relationship had no main effects on psychosomatic health and job satisfaction.2. Social support and self-efficacy could influence the employees' cognitive appraisal and coping strategies, then moderate the relationship between the job stressors-stress. Furthermore, there were interactive effects between social support and self-efficacy.3. The present job stress model with individual differences was tested through structural equation analysis (EQS). It indicated that job stressors spilled over into job satisfaction via psychosomatic health. Social support and self-efficacy, as moderators, could buffer the relationship between job stressor-stress.The implications for management practice are to give employees more control over their work, as well as promote their social support and self-efficacy, which can highly motivated them and improve their abilities of coping the job stressors.