Mental health and job satisfaction of working individuals in Ireland: workload impact during COVID-19
Authors
Begic, Sanela
Issue Date
2022
Degree
BA (Hons) in Psychology
Publisher
Dublin Business School
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Abstract
The current study investigated job satisfaction, workload impact, mental health and the role of cooing ability in job satisfaction of working individuals in Ireland. Study used quantitative online survey to gather the data with mix of both, correlational and cross-sectional survey design. Snowball sampling was used to collect the responses which resulted with (N=66) respondents (N=34) males and (N=32) females. The study included four self-reporting questionnaires: DASS-21 (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995), The Generic Job Satisfaction Scale (MacDonald and MacIntyre, 1997), BRCS (Sinclair and Wallston, 2004 and Quantitative Workload Inventory (Spector and Jex, 1998) and six demographic questions. Results showed moderate positive relationship between current workload and mental health o participants. Furthermore, coping ability and stress were found to be good predictors of job satisfaction. These results might bring a change for stress management programs implemented in organizations which would promote well-being of working individuals in Ireland.