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Relationship Between Occupational Stress, Demographic Characteristics, And Job Role
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PARVIN AHMADINEJAD
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Background: Job stress can be defined as physical and emotional responses in an individual occurring when personal demands are not commensurate with the individual’s abilities, talents or expectations. Owing to the problems caused by occupational stress that can affect an individual’s physical and mental health and its adverse effects on job performance, it is important to consider job stress. This study was conducted to investigate job stress and the factors affecting it such as demographic and occupation roles in Shiraz forensic personnel.
Method: This is a cross-sectional (descriptive-analytical) study in which the personnel of different departments of Shiraz forensic medicine were examined for job stress. Osipow job stress questionnaire was used to assess the subjects’ job stress. Additionally, the collected data were analyzed by the SPSS software.
Result: Out of 60 personnel working in forensic medicine, 59 people answered the questionnaire, and the response rate was higher than 98%. Among the studied stressors, job dissatisfaction and responsibility by the average scores of 55.1 and 40.8, were identified as the most important factors causing job stress. The mean stress score of smokers was higher than that of non-smokers. The accuracy of the questionnaire was measured by Cronbach's test, which was a = 85%.
Conclusion: Considering that the most stressful factors were job dissatisfaction and responsibility, the organization management can increase their job satisfaction through having proper interacting with their employees, justifying personnel to their job responsibilities, and giving employees defined freedom of action.
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Job Stress, Forensic Medicine, Osipow Questionnaire, Role.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.01.743
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