Job Stress among Women Employees in the Private Skin Care Company

Abstract

Stress experienced by women at the workplace affects not only their professional life, but also family life and social intercourses. The objectives of the research are to investigate the prevalence of job stress and to explore the impact of job and organization factors which associated to job stress among women employees in the frontline skin care company of Thailand. Research instruments were conducted from Karasek's job content questionnaire 1.7 (revised 1997) and Suanprung Stress Test (SPST-20) was applied to 306 respondents. The results show prevalence of female employees are under high level of stress (41.5%). Top three of stresses were income insufficiency, responsibility of job, and physiological stress. Income sufficiency has significantly related to job stress. In addition, there were significantly difference between job stress and supportive from supervisor, where low supportive from supervisor cause severe stress. Psychological job demand is the most significantly impacted job stress among women employees in the frontline skin care company, while authority decision also significantly negative impacted job stress.