The Relationship of Employees' Job Control with Job Stress and Subjective Well–being

Abstract

Background: Lack of job control can lead to stress and threats individual’s subject well-being. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship of job control and stress and subject well-being. Methods: Statistical population of the research was all of the personnel of Isfahan Petrochemical Company from which 151 persons were randomly selected via simple random method. The research method was correlational. To gather data, the following three instruments were used: Job control Questionnaire of Wall, Jackson and Mullarkey (1995), Subject Well-being Questionnaire of Mollavi (2007), and Job Stress of Eliot (1994). The obtained data were analyzed via one group MANOVA and multiple regressions. Also, mean of work groups in term of subject well-being and stress compared by ANOVA and Scheffe paired compares test. Findings: The relationship of job control with job stress was positive and significant (ß = -0.36, P < 0.05), and the relationship of job control with subject well-being (ß = -0.34, P < 0.05) also the means of subject well-being (P < 0.05) and stress (P < 0.05) were different in work groups technical and general staff. Conclusion: If the employees have job control at work, they will experience job satisfaction and decreased stress. Also their subject well-being will increase. Key words:Job control, Job stress, Subject well-being.