This study is to explore the staffs of Kaohsiung city government for: (1) The relationships among job stress, quality of work life, humor leadership, and worksite health promotion; (2) The moderating effect of humor leadership toward job stress and quality of work life; (3) The moderating effect of worksite health promotion toward job stress and quality of work life; (4) The differences of sample characters on job stress, quality of work life, humor leadership, and worksite health promotion. The questionnaire survey was conducted in the study. Based on the data from Department of Budget, Accounting and Statistics of Kaohsiung city government, the budgeted staffs in 2009 are 10,840 persons who were located into 11 institute¡¦s catagories. According to the staffs numbers, we measured by ratio sampling (8%-10%), and associated with convenient sampling. Total 1005 questionnaires were distributed to the government staffs and 71 public schools staffs, and the valid questionnaires were 800 copies with return rate of 79.6%. This study adopted exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, independent-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), correlation analysis and multiple regression. The findings are: (1) The government staffs have more stress on outside-giving, and they were mostly satisfied with leadership style of their supervisors; (2) Extrinsic effort and Overcommitment negatively and significantly affect quality of work life; Self-esteem and job promotion positively and significantly affect quality of work life; (3) Extrinsic effort and overcommitment negatively and significantly affect the balance of job/life; Self-esteem and job promotion positively and significantly affect quality of work life; (4) Humor leadership is a moderator toward extrinsic effort, self-esteem, overcommitment and quality of work life; (5) Health life, comfortable environment, friendly worksite are partial moderators toward self-esteem, job promotion, overcommitment and job characteristics; (6) Part of personal characters have significant differences in job stress, quality of work life, humor leadership, and worksite health promotion. This study aims to the relationship between job stress and quality of work life from the staffs of Kaohsiung city government, and could confirm humor leadership and worksite health promotion to be a moderator partially affecting job stress and quality of work life. The results could be the reference to provide Kaohsiung city government and related institutes to work on the strategy for reducing job stress and increasing quality of work life.

Recently years, the nursing environment changed and increased heavy work loading to the clinical instructor, and caused clinical instructors to have job stress. At this transformed process, clinical instructors are easy to have the situation of burnout, and affected their professional commitment. This study is aimed to use the view of social exchange theory to discuss the relationship among job stress, burnout, professional commitment and perceived organizational support. The hypotheories are as below: H1¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Job Stress negatively and significantly affected Professional Commitment. H2¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Job Stress positively and significantly affected Burnout. H3¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Burnout negatively and significantly affected Professional Commitment. H4¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Burnout as an mediator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between Job Stress and Professional Commitment. H5¡GClinical instructors¡¦ Perceived Organizational Support as the moderator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between Burnout and Professional Commitment. The samples were collected from the clinical instructors who worked at Technology universities, Technical colleges, Junior colleges which located in north, central and south of Taiwan. And used the methods of descriptive statistic, factor analysis, reliability examination, difference analysis, relative analysis, regression analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, the results as below: H1¡GClinical instructors¡¦ job stress negatively and significantly affected professional commitment. H2¡GClinical instructors¡¦ job stress positively and significantly affected burnout. H3¡GClinical instructors¡¦ burnout negatively and significantly affected partial professional commitment. H4¡GClinical instructors¡¦ burnout as partial mediator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between job stress and professional commitment. H5¡GClinical instructors¡¦ perceived organizational support as partial moderator positively and significantly affected to the relationship between burnout and professional commitment. The finding is indicated that suitable job stress could raise clinical instructor¡¦s professional commitment, especially on self-esteem; and heavy work loading increased clinical instructors¡¦ burnout, especially for high burnout situation, their affective and normative commitment will be lower; Besides, in our study, Clinical instructors¡¦ burnout as an partial mediator affected to the relationship between job stress and professional commitment, and their organizational support as a partial affected to the relationship between burnout and professional commitment.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-167). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2009. / Adviser: Robert Folger. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-112).

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Social Service Management / Master / Master of Social Sciences

在香港國際學校，相較于本地學校，更加激烈的崗位競爭、英語為工作語言的整體環境以及背景多樣化的學生等因素是否會導致教師們對職業的認同感和成就感有所不同呢？瞭解國際學校中文教師職業倦怠的情況對教師的個人職業發展、教學工作的有效開展和學校的教師管理都具有重要意義。 本研究旨在對香港國際學校中文教師職業倦怠的情況進行調查，通過Maslash（MBI-ES）問卷，分三個維度（情緒衰竭、非個性化、低成就感）對中文教師職業倦怠的程度進行描述；其次，利用訪談對倦怠的原因和影響因素進行探討和分析。 本次調查採取方便取樣的原則，隨機抽取國際學校中文教師30 人進行調查，利用SPSS17.0 對數據進行整理和分析，組間的差異性采用方差分析（單因素ANOVA）和t 檢驗，人口學特征和職業倦怠各維度的關系采用線性回歸進行分析。 研究發現，香港國際學校的中文教師在情緒衰竭和去個性化兩個維度上表現出中度倦怠，而在低成就感上得分較高，即有較高的成就感體驗。不同性別的教師在倦怠程度上無差異； 不同年齡的教師在低成就感維度上差異顯著（ P=0.000），本次調查中，20-30 歲的教師成就感最低，50 歲或以上的教師最有成就感；從入職時間上看，有1-2 年工作經驗的教師有相對高的情感衰竭情況（22.00±6.06）；不同入職時間的教師在成就感上差異顯著（P= 0.018），從事對外漢語教學工作3 年或以下的教師成就感低於有3 年以上工作經驗的教師。此外，學歷與成就感表現出顯著相關（B=3.195，P=0.034），學歷越高在教學上的成就感體驗也就越高；同時，香港以外的教學經驗與成就感呈現顯著相關（ B=2.253，P=0.05），即教學經驗豐富的教師擁有相對高的成就感。 This study assessed teachers' burnout from different genders, ages, working years, educational levels, working hours and working experience in a sample of 30 Chinese in-service teachers in Hong Kong International Schools by MBI-ES questionnaire and interviews and draw conclusions as follows: The general findings suggested that on the burnout components, indicating moderate levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation, but high or nearly high levels of reduced personal accomplishment. Teachers' reduced personal accomplishment is significant in age（ P= 0.000 ） and working years（ P= 0.018): teachers of 20-30 years old have the highest scores in reduced personal accomplishment and teachers of 50 years old or above have the lowest scores; teachers with less 3 years working experience have the highest scores in reduced personal accomplishment. What's more, overseas teaching experience and educational levels are highly relevant with reduced personal accomplishment. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

The purpose of this thesis was to examine the unique and interactive effects of job stress (overtaxation, organizational, and management stress), religious coping (positive and negative), and church-based social support (received, provided, and anticipated) on the subsequent psychological outcomes (well-being and distress) among a national sample of Presbyterian clergy. The data were drawn from the February 1997 and November 1999 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) Panel Study. Clergy currently serving a local congregation were included in the analyses (N = 521). Findings indicate that overtaxation, organizational, and management job stressors tend to increase subsequent levels of psychological distress, while organizational and management job stressors tend to decrease subsequent levels of psychological well-being. Consistent with prior research and with Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, positive religious coping predicted subsequent psychological well-being. Finally, the findings from this study supported the stress-buffering effects of social support received from church members, indicating that this type of support may protect clergy from the damaging psychological effects of overtaxation and burnout over an extended period of time. This thesis concludes with a call for seminaries, denominations, and local churches to provide clergy serving in local church ministry with the social support they need. Doing so will enhance the psychological well-being of clergy, thus improving their personal capacity to effectively provide support to their church members and others in the community who seek their counsel. / text

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the level of perceived empowerment and the level of burnout among female employees in health and human service organizations. Also, this study investigates the relationship between each dimension of empowerment--control, competence, and valued goals--and employees' level of burnout. In order to focus on the aforementioned relationships, this study takes into account background factors such as socio-demographic and employment characteristics. Data for the present study were taken from the Survey of Organizational Excellence, which was administered by the state of Texas to assess the organizational effectiveness of state employees. This study employs a series of multiple regression analyses in order to address the effect of the level of empowerment on the level of burnout--as well as the effect of the level of each dimension of empowerment on the level of burnout--for female employees in these health and human service organizations. The results indicate that female employees who perceive higher levels of control, competence, or valued goals--that is, empowerment taken as a whole--on the job experience lower levels of burnout. In addition to the effect of empowerment or the dimensions of empowerment, it was found that various background factors influence the level of burnout perceived by female employees in workplace. Finally, the author discusses the methodological limitations of this study, its implications for management and social work practice, as well as some recommendations for further research. / text

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Educational Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences