Open AccessPerceived stress: role and levels of demographics – a cross-sectional study of textile industry employees
Author(s) -
Aftab Ahmad,
Amjad Hussain,
Mohammad Pervez Mughal,
Mufti Nadeem,
Muhammad Qaiser Saleem,
Tareq Z. Ahram
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
industria textilă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1222-5347
DOI - 10.35530/it.071.02.1643
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , demographics , affect (linguistics) , marital status , salary , stress (linguistics) , psychology , descriptive statistics , cross sectional study , descriptive research , stress management , applied psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , demography , environmental health , population , psychiatry , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , communication , social science , pathology , political science , law
Work stress adversely affects individual and organizational performance. This paper aims at investigating the perceivedstress among the employees of textile industry employees and how the employees’ perceived stress level (EPSL) islinked with different demographic variables. Data was collected from 1212 employees working in 23 export-based textileorganizations using primarily Sheldon Cohen’s PSS-10. Descriptive analysis, t-tests, and ANOVA-tests were performedto achieve the objectives of the study. 70% of the participants were found to be undergoing stress amongst 21% werein the severe level of stress while 40% in higher level. The demographic variables: gender, marital status, salary,position, job experience, family size, and size of the organization, were found to have significant effect on the perceivedstress levels. The study revealed numbers of variables (demographic) that directly or indirectly affect the employees’perceived stress level (EPSL). There is a need to understand the complexity of stress phenomenon using a proactiveapproach, so that the stress management and interventions strategies can be designed to be effective and implementedaccordingly. Findings of this research support the research community in an attempt to unfold complexity of stressphenomenon and study results can be utilized as a job design guideline for more acceptable and viable stressmanagement interventions.