Influence of Occupational Stress on Psycho-Physiologic Disorder and Job Satisfaction in Organizations Situated in Northeast Nigeria

Abstract

Stress is the non-specific response of the body to any demand made upon it. Stress reveals major physiological changes which can affect human performance. Occupational Stress has been seen to have some major influence in daily living of people. For about a decade North East Nigeria has been plagued by insurgence, terrorism and destruction of institutions and Organization either by bomb or physical attack on workers in the general area. This paper showed that certain occupation is more stressed than the other. There is a relationship between Stress, Health and Job Satisfaction. 500 participants were randomly selected using blocked random sampling. The participants were aged between 25 and 55 years and has been working in their organizations for at least 3 years. The Work Stress Questionnaire (WSQ), The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSQ) were administered to the Participants using blocked random sampling design. It was discovered that there is a significant difference in how different organizational workers perceive stress and how it in turn affects their Psychophisiologic disorders. When analyzed with regression analysis, the health workers were seen to be the least satisfied with a .001 significance level at p=.05 confidence level. It is recommended that the government should sort way to completely tackle insurgency in the area so as to make it conducive for the workers in the zone.