Investigation of Chronic Stress Sources in the Working Population of Karatas County, Adana Province

Year 2017, Volume 2, Issue 1(4), 39 - 39, 01.11.2017

Burak Kurt Muhsin Akbaba Volkan Recai Ötegen Ersin Nazlıcan Hüseyin İlter

Abstract

Objective:
The
aim of this study is to determine the sources of chronic stress in the working
environment.

Method: After the necessary official permissions were obtained, study
was carried out in Adana/Karatas between March and June 2016. Karatas district
center has 6580 population over 18 years of age and we reached to 363 people
with systematic sampling. Questionnaire and short symptom inventory
questionnaires were applied by the researcher using face-to-face interview
method. The data were analyzed on computer using the SPSS 19 program. P<0.05
was considered statistically significant.

Findings: Of the 363 participants who participated in the study,
181(49.9%) were male and 182(50.1%) were female.

23(6.3%) were illiterate, 28(7.7%) were literate, 136(37.5%) had primary
school, 89(24.5%) had middle school, 67(18.5%) had high school, 20(5.5%) had
college-faculty and above education level.

166(45.8%) were housewives, 102(28.1%) were working in the agricultural sector,
48(13.2%) were artisans/self-employed, 35(9,6%) were working in the fishery
sector, 7(1.9%) were public personnel, 3(0.8%) were working in the tourism
sector and 2(0.6%) were working in the construction sector.

154(42.4%) were working actively while 209(57.6%) were not working.

When advanced statistical analysis is performed; those who did not work had
more stress than the workers(p=0.049),

Workers include:

Those who had problems related to environmental factors in the working
environment experienced more stress than those who did not(p=0.044)

Those who had problems with organizational factors had more stress than those
who did not, but this result was not significant(p=0.329)

Those who had problems with individual factors in the working environment
experienced more stress than those who did not(p = 0.006)

Those who had problems with individual differences in the working environment
had more stress than those who did not(p = 0.018).

Conclusion: Stress sources, which are inherent in the nature of the
business, are constantly creating problems for employees.

 

 

Keywords:
Working
Environment, Stress, Work Psychology

Keywords

Investigation of Chronic Stress Sources in the Working Population of Karatas County

References

• Burak Kurt1, Muhsin Akbaba1, Volkan Recai Ötegen1, Ersin Nazlıcan1, Hüseyin İlter2 1Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Department of Public Health 2Turkey Public Health Institution Environmental Health Department