OCCUPATIONAL STRESS, JOB-SATISFACTION AND MENTAL-HEALTH AMONG EMPLOYEES OF AN ACQUIRED TV COMPANY IN HONG-KONG

The Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI) was adopted to investigate the sources of stress, job satisfaction, coping strategies, mental and ph ysical health of workers. Data were collected from 101 employees of an acquired TV company in Hong Kong. Workers' perceived work pressure wa s negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related to me ntal and physical ill-health. Among these employees, sources of stress were negatively related to job satisfaction, and positively related t o mental and physical ill-health. Opposite findings were obtained for coping strategies, which were positively related to job satisfaction, and negatively related to mental and physical ill-health. Regression a nalyses were employed to reveal the predictors for strain effects, The results showed that a combination of stressors related statistically significantly to the strain effects, but only a few individual stresso rs were strong predictors. 'Relationships with other people' and 'orga nizational structure and climate' were strong predictors of job satisf action, whereas 'managerial role' was a strong predictor of both menta l and physical ill-health. The middle managers reported highest scores on some sources of stress and physical ill-health. Further, the resul ts of this study provide some validation data for the OSI in a Chinese sample. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.