Introduction: Job stress is an
interaction between working conditions and the individual characteristics of
the employee. The aim of this study was to compare job stress and related factors of welfare organization employees with
and without physical disability in Tehran.
Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-comparative
study, the statistical population included all employees of welfare centers in
Tehran. The type of sampling method was convenience and the cases included all
the 53 employees affected by physical disabilities and the control group
included 61 people with similar characteristics and job positions, without
disabilities. In order to measure the job stress severity and its influencing
factors, the “Occupational Stress Scale”
prepared for Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and “Factors Influencing Job
Stress” questionnaire were used respectively. In this study reliability was
measured by Cronbach's alpha which
for “Occupational Stress Scale” and was 0.73 and “Factors Influencing Job
Stress” had reliability of 0.80. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS-16
software using statistical tests K2 and independent t-test.
Findings:
No significant differences were found in
demographic characteristics between the two groups.The job stress in
employees with physical disabilities was significantly different with the
employees without (P<0.05), with higher stress in the physically disabled
(mean=113.7 and standard deviation=11.3) compared to non-disabled (mean=97.2
and standard deviation=11.2) (P<0.001). The importance of factors
influencing job stress was also higher in the employees with disability
(mean=119.2 and standard deviation=13.2) compared to non- disabled (mean=105.2
and standard deviation=12.5) (P<0.001).
Conclusion:
Job stress of employees with physical
disabilities is more than the employees without physical disability and also
the factors influencing the stress are different. Paying more attention to the
programs designed to promote the skills of job stress management and also
decreasing and/or eliminating factors related to job stress of employees with
disabilities are recommended.
Barghi S, Foroughan M, Hosseini M, Farzi M. Comparing job stress and related factors between welfare organization’s employees with and without physical disability in Tehran . JHPM 2013; 2 (3) :56-65 URL: http://jhpm.ir/article-1-108-en.html