Work Stressors and Occupational Health of Young Employees: The Moderating Role of Work Adaptability

Abstract

Work adaptability refers to the work experience, habits, and skills that enable an individual to adapt to current or changing work tasks and situations. It is a coping resource that individuals use to mitigate various types of stress. Adopting the interaction model of work stress, this study investigated 168 young employees in 20 organizations in Zhejiang Province through interview research and a questionnaire survey. The results show that work adaptability has a significant main effect on occupational health. The work adaptability of employees plays a moderating role in the relationship between occupational health and lack of work meaning stress, role conflict stress, interpersonal relationship stress, negative organizational atmosphere stress, and total score of work stressors. Young employees with high work adaptability have worse occupational health under high-level stress situations due to a lack of work meaning. For promoting occupational health in young employees, organizations should have this group of workers complete meaningful jobs or inform them of the importance of their jobs, reduce role conflict, and create a supportive organizational atmosphere. For management, it is imperative to eliminate high-level stress that stems from a lack of work meaning in order to retain young employees with high work adaptability. These findings shed light on how work adaptability helps young employees deal with stress and improve their occupational health. In organizational and self-stress management, it is beneficial to improve employees’ work adaptability continuously as a means of effectively resisting stress and maintaining occupational health.

Investigating the Relationship Between Coping Styles, Alexithymia, and Management Styles with Job Satisfaction (Case Study: The Employees of the Maad Group)

“…The current study's results show that satisfaction with the nature of work significantly predicts alexithymia. A previous study by Zhou and Zheng (2022) showed that work stress conditions are associated with the creation of psychosomatic complaints. Moreover, the path model showed that poor working conditions are directly associated with job dissatisfaction and difficulty in thinking and indirectly associated with mental health problems (Zhou & Zheng, 2022).…”

“…A previous study by Zhou and Zheng (2022) showed that work stress conditions are associated with the creation of psychosomatic complaints. Moreover, the path model showed that poor working conditions are directly associated with job dissatisfaction and difficulty in thinking and indirectly associated with mental health problems (Zhou & Zheng, 2022). The results of this study showed that employee satisfaction with promotions significantly affects difficulty in describing feelings.…”

Overview of stress levels in work organization

“…The results revealed that a lot of anxiety occurred due to increased work stress, so it needed to be preventive so that it was not sustainable (Yang et al, 2020). (Zhou and Zheng, 2022). Through awareness-based stress reduction therapy methods in the research of work stress, anxiety, and negative emotions can be suppressed to increase mental health, the method applies to all genders of men and women (Yang et al, 2018).…”

Overview of Stress Levels in Work Organization

“…The results revealed that a lot of anxiety occurred due to increased work stress, so it needed to be preventive so that it was not sustainable (Yang et al, 2020). (Zhou and Zheng, 2022). Through awareness-based stress reduction therapy methods in the research of work stress, anxiety, and negative emotions can be suppressed to increase mental health, the method applies to all genders of men and women (Yang et al, 2018).…”