Date of Award
1997
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Art
Department
Business
First Advisor
Pamela Nickels
Second Advisor
Jesse B. Harris
Third Advisor
Donna Noonan
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine if there was a significant difference in the intensity and frequency of organizational stress and job risk stress perceived between salaried, white-collar (N=37) employees and skilled blue-collar, union employees (N=35). 59 of the subjects were male and 13 were female.
The respondents completed two self-administered questionnaires. One was a work stress instrument, and the other was a demographic data sheet. The stress instrument contained 40 items, with scoring based on a 5-point Likert-type scale, that measured intensity and frequency of stress. The demographic data sheet contained 13 items.
Major findings of the research concluded that there was a significant difference in the average organizational intensity and frequency stress scores of white and blue-collar subjects. There was no difference in the average job risk intensity and frequency stress scores of white and blue-collar subjects.
Recommended Citation
Mays, Reva Carol, "A Study of Stress in the Workplace in the 1990s" (1997). Theses. 1039.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/1039
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