Date of Award
2005
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Program
Leadership PhD
First Advisor
Elvin Gabriel
Second Advisor
John V. G. Matthews
Third Advisor
Wilfred Futcher
Abstract
Problem . Stress, like pain, begins at birth and remains common to the human condition throughout life, and it is a factor in the experience of every human being who ever lived. It is not merely universal but it is also endemic and omnipresent. Chairpersons, due to the bi-directional demands of administration and students are in a stressful environment. This study was undertaken to identify whether quality of life and spiritual well-being play an important role in occupational stress levels in chairpersons of Seventh-day Adventist Tertiary Institutions.
Method. Three questionnaires were used to get responses from 137 chairpersons in five major Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institutions using the survey method of data collection. Canonical correlations and linear regressions were used to analyze the three research questions in this study.
Results. The results of this study indicated that spiritual well-being, especially the existential well-being component, had a statistically significant affect upon quality of life variables. Spiritual well-being had the greatest affect upon self-esteem and creativity satisfactions. Spiritual well-being also affected occupation strains having the greatest impact upon psychological and interpersonal strains.
Conclusions. Chairpersons who experienced increased levels of spiritual well-being were more likely to have an increase in their vocational stress level, and this was especially true for their existential well-being. It can be concluded that the quality of life has a direct relationship on stress levels in the participants, seeing that higher levels of quality of life correlated with lower levels of Occupational Stress Inventory Revised variables.
Subject Area
Departmental chairmen (Universities)--Job stress, Departmental chairmen (Universities)--Spiritual life, Seventh-day Adventists -- Universities and colleges -- Administration
Recommended Citation
Aldridge, Russell Mark, "Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life as Correlates of Job Stress Among Academic Chairpersons in Selected Seventh-day Adventist Tertiary Institutions" (2005). Dissertations. 184.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations/184
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/dissertations/184/
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/dissertations/184/
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