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Qin Zhang1, Ya-Jia Lan, Hong-Mei Chen
1Department of Occupational Health, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Objective:
To assess occupational stress and quality of working life (QWL) and their association in workers with different jobs.
Methods:
The Occupational Stress Inventory Revised Edition (OSI-R) and Quality of Working Life Scale (QWL7-32) were administered to 194 workers in the Liaohe Oilfield. The association between occupational stress and quality of working life was analysed by controlling job types and other confounding variables.
Results:
Office workers had significantly lower scores in occupational role questionnaire (ORQ) and personal strain questionnaire (PSQ) and higher scores in personal resources questionnaire (PRQ) and QWL than physical laborers (P<0.05). The PSQ scores were positively correlated with the ORQ scores and negatively correlated with the PRQ scores. The QWL scores were negatively correlated with the ORQ and PSQ scores, and positively correlated with the PRQ scores (P<0.001). The QWL scores changed with job types. The QWL scores declined with the increase of stress levels (P<0.01). ORQ, role boundary (RB), role insufficiency (RI), physical environment (PE), PSQ, vocational strain (VS), interpersonal strain (IS) and PRQ had a significant impact on quality of working life (P<0.01).
Conclusion:
Occupational stress is associated with quality of working life. Quality of working life can be improved through control of occupational stress.
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