Abstract:
Job life is one of the important parts of our daily lives which cause a
great deal of stress. Due to the competitive nature of the job
environment, most of the people in the World are spending their time for
Job related work purposes which result to ignore stressors those are
influencing their work and life. University academic staffs may face
more problems in their job as the managements are facing competitive
pressure from other Universities. Therefore it leads to affect their
physical or mental health. The research studies job stress of university
Academic staff in Eastern University. The data for this study is collected
from 120 Academic staff from Eastern University of Sri Lanka. The
determinants of job stress that have been examined under this study
include, management role, relationship with others, workload pressure,
homework interface, role ambiguity and performance pressure. The
researchers used the questionnaire to collect the primary data.
Descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data, Mean
and standard deviation was used in the descriptive statistics to find out
the influence of each factor in the dependent variable, stress. Correlation
and regression were done to find out the relationship between
independent and dependent variable. The researchers used SPSS 14.0 to
analyze the data. The results show that workload pressure, homework
interface, role ambiguity, and performance pressure had a significant
and direct effect on job stress. Management role and relationship with
others had no significant direct effect on job stress.
