The Effects of Job Event Stressors on Employees Working at Different Companies: A Psychological Study

This study investigated job events that were stressors for individual employees working at a construction and a manufacturing company. The Job Events Checklist and the psychological stress reactions scale, which was a subscale of the Job Stress Scale, were administered to employees of the two different companies to select the job event stressors. We set criteria for the cognitive appraisal and relationship to the psychological stress reactions. As a result, five events were found to be stressors for employees of the construction company, while nine events were stressors for employees of the manufacturing company. Specific working conditions at each com- pany may have influenced the occurrence of these stressor events.