Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life as Correlates of Job Stress Among Academic Chairpersons in Selected Seventh-day Adventist Tertiary Institutions

<p><em>Problem</em> . 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.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. 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.</p> <p><em>Results</em>. 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.</p> <p><em>Conclusions</em>. 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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Leadership PhD

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Aldridge, Russell Mark

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elvin Gabriel
• John V. G. Matthews
• Wilfred Futcher

• Higher Education Administration
• Mental and Social Health

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations/184

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.andrews.edu:dissertations-1183