The relationship between employees job stress and perceived psychological health status at development office in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) / Mohd. Firdaus Mohd. Fitri

• Main Author: Mohd. Fitri, Mohd. Firdaus
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Work. Performance; Job stress. Stress management; Employee rights; Job satisfaction
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/66554/1/66554.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/66554/

This study was carried out to find out the relationship between job demand and job control with employees psychological health status from Development Office in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). The major objective of this study is to identify the level of agreement and the relationship between independent and dependent variables. This study involved 102 staff in Development Office UNIMAS as the respondents of survey. Method for primary data collection was done using questionnaires. After data collection done, it was clean and analyzed using SPSS version 22. Besides, the pearson correlation was conducted in order to investigate the association between job demands and job control with employees perceived psychological health status. Based on the correlation findings in the previous chapter, the correlation value for workloads, time pressure, skill discretion and job authority were r=-0.165, r=-0.119, r=-0.049, r=-0.144 respectively. This finding indicated that, workload, time pressure and job authority have negative, weak and insignificant relationship with employees psychological health status. However, skill discretion does not have any relationship with employees' psychological health. Further recommendations were suggested in the thesis.