دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مقایسه روابط سببی با استرس شغلی بین کارکنان مهاجر تایلندی با و بدون تربیت والدین - امرالد 2018

Abstract

Purpose – The occupational stress is a disadvantage resulting in mental health illnesses that have been found when looking at those migrants who were young adults and migrated to work in the urban areas, leaving behind their aging parents to live alone at home. The purpose of this paper is to compare the causal relationships of job stress between Thai immigrant employees with and without rearing aging parents. Design/methodology/approach – The research was a cross-sectional survey. The sample for this study included 600 Thai immigrant employees (300 cases per group) in 2016. Measures included individual characteristics, working conditions, and a Thai Job Content Questionnaire (Thai-JCQ) on related job stress. The model was verified using a path model by Mplus software. Findings – The distance traveled between the house and the workplace, wages, working conditions had a direct effect on job stress. Working conditions among Thai immigrants employees with rearing aging parents had the most direct effect on job stress with a standardized regression weight of 0.552 ( p-value o0.05) as well as working conditions among their without rearing aging parents had the most direct effect on job stress with a standardized regression weight of −0.292. Originality/value – This research demonstrated that working conditions were an important factor.

Discussion

This highlights that the empirical study is the first and outstanding research finding of Thailand because Thai immigrant employees who looked after their aging parents are less stress than immigrant employees without rearing their aging parents due to blood bonding in Thai society. Therefore, employers should set up activities (i.e. exercise, entertainment, and relaxation) to reduce job stress. In addition, it can increase the labor productivity.

Similar to other immigrant employees, these immigrant employees who looked after left-behind family members (such as, aging parents, spouses, and children) experienced relatively high levels of stress[24, 28]. Working conditions were most consistently associated with the job stress among both those Thai immigrant employees with rearing aging parents as well as those employees without rearing aging parents. Nevertheless, working conditions among employees without rearing aging parents should be verified in the future because of the negative effects on the job stress. In addition, the wages and distance variables had a direct effect on the job stress in both groups. However, it could be considered that both variables still had less effect than the working conditions, and had little association with job stress.