Babu Giridhara R, Sudhir Paulomi M, Mahapatra Tanmay, Das Aritra, Rathnaiah Mohanbabu, Anand Indiresh, Detels Roger
Public Health Foundation of India, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Department of Clinical Psychology, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2016 May-Aug;20(2):109-113. doi: 10.4103/0019-5278.197544.
There is limited scientific evidence on the relationship of job stress with quality of life (QoL).
This study aims to explore different domains of job stress affecting IT/ITES professionals and estimate the levels of stress that these professionals endure to reach positive levels of QoL given that other determinants operating between these two variables are accounted for.
We estimated levels of stress that software professionals would have endured to reach positive levels of QoL considering that other factors operating between these two variables are accounted for. The study participants comprised 1071 software professionals who were recruited using a mixed sampling method. Participants answered a self-administered questionnaire containing questions on job stress, QoL, and confounders.
All the domains (physical, psychological, social, and environmental) of QoL showed statistically significant positive associations with increasing stress domains of autonomy, physical infrastructure, work environment, and emotional factors.
The respondents clearly found the trade-off of higher stress to be acceptable for the improved QoL they enjoyed. It is also possible that stress might actually be responsible for improvements in QoL either directly or through mediation of variables such as personal values and aspirations. Yerkes-Dodson law and stress appraisal models of Folkman and Lazarus may explain the plausible positive association.
关于工作压力与生活质量（QoL）之间的关系，科学证据有限。
本研究旨在探讨影响信息技术/信息技术外包专业人员的工作压力的不同领域，并估计在考虑这两个变量之间起作用的其他决定因素的情况下，这些专业人员为达到积极的生活质量水平所承受的压力水平。
考虑到这两个变量之间起作用的其他因素，我们估计了软件专业人员为达到积极的生活质量水平所承受的压力水平。研究参与者包括1071名软件专业人员，他们采用混合抽样方法招募。参与者回答了一份包含有关工作压力、生活质量和混杂因素问题的自填式问卷。
生活质量的所有领域（身体、心理、社会和环境）与自主性、物理基础设施、工作环境和情感因素等压力领域的增加均显示出统计学上显著的正相关。
受访者显然认为，为了他们所享有的生活质量的提高，承受更高的压力是可以接受的。压力也有可能直接或通过个人价值观和抱负等变量的中介作用，实际上对生活质量的提高负有责任。耶克斯 - 多德森定律以及福克曼和拉扎勒斯的压力评估模型可能解释这种看似合理的正相关关系。
