DEMOGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLER KAPSAMINDA ÇALIŞANLARIN İŞ STRESİ ALGILARI: BİR ALAN ARAŞTIRMASI

Job stress is a growing interest among industrial and organisational psychologists and academicians working on organisational behaviour. The present study focused on individuals working in Adana and Gaziantep State Railways units. This research adopted a quantitative methodology, utilizing a questionnaire as the data collection instrument. Data were obtained from a sample of 275 employees working in the specified units. The data obtained were entered into the SPSS programme. Reliability and normality analyses were performed. Frequency, t-test, and ANOVA (F-test) analyses were performed. The SPSS programme was used in quantitative data analysis. According to the t-test analysis findings, there is a significant difference according to marital status, while there is no significant difference according to gender. The ANOVA results indicated statistically significant differences in job stress levels based on age, number of children, education level, professional seniority, and monthly income, while there was no significant difference according to spouse employment status. It was found that married employees have lower job stress levels than single employees, job stress levels decrease with increasing age, job stress levels decrease with increasing number of children, job stress levels increase with increasing education level, job stress levels decrease with increasing professional seniority, and job stress levels decrease with increasing income level.