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Job stress is a serious threat to the working people’s quality of life (QoL). Stress at workplace gives a big impact on a person’s health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between job stress and the QoL of working people. A total of 400 validated sets of questionnaire were distributed to respondents in the selected areas of Meru, Klang and the acquired data were analysed using IBM SPSS 22.0. The findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between job stress and the quality of life among employees. The most influential factor on the QoL was job-related stress, followed by organisational, interpersonal, perceived stress and work environment related stress. The lack of reward and recognition was highly related to the causes of stress and influence the employees’ concentration and confidence. In conclusion, the measurement of stress in the QoL is important because it will also reflect on people’s life evaluation, expectancy and standard of living.
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Ahmad, M., Maon, S.N., Aziz, N.I.S.A. (2018). The Relationship Between Job Stress and Quality of Life Among Working Adults. In: Noordin, F., Othman, A., Kassim, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6053-3_25
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