The Relationship between Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction among Employed Engineers

Abstract

The aim of this research was to study the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction among employed engineers. The hypothesis presented was that job satisfaction will be negatively correlated with occupational stress. The tools used to assess were the OSI (by Dr A. P. Singh and Dr A. K. Srivastava) and JSS (by Dr T. R. Sharma and Dr Amar Singh) for occupational stress and job satisfaction respectively. The items of these scales were combined into a questionnaire and data was collected through a survey design. The sample consisted of 100 employed engineers (n=50 males and n=50 females) aged 25 to 30 years. The correlation coefficient was calculated for the two variables along with the two-tailed P-Value. The results showed a negative significant relationship between work-related stress and the level of job satisfaction among working engineers, also there were no statistically significant differences based on gender. The research findings were in accordance with the hypothesis.