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Is Seasonal Stress a Career Choice of Professional Accountants?
Author(s) -
CLUSKEY G. R.,
VAUX ALAN C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1997.tb00452.x
Subject(s) - workload , stressor , psychology , occupational stress , audit , stress (linguistics) , accounting , vocational education , quarter (canadian coin) , applied psychology , social psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , business , pedagogy , management , medicine , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , economics
Workload compression during the first quarter of each year (January‐March) is hypothesized to involve additional job demands on auditors and tax professionals causing job strain (occupational stress). Using canonical correlation analysis to analyze the survey data, this study found that the strongest stressor‐strain relationship was for the group surveyed in January, indicating that workload compression contributes to seasonal occupational stress. Seasonal stress will remain a very strong barrier to qualified individuals in making an accounting career their vocational choice and will put additional demands on Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counseling for accounting practitioners.