Roles of Job Demands and Job Resources on Work Stress: The Case of Higher Education Teaching Faculties

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impact of job demands and job resources on work stress among teaching faculty members in higher education institutions. It adopts a deductive approach within the framework of objective philosophy, utilizing a sample size of 409 faculty members and employing a cross-sectional research design. The findings indicate that job demands harm work stress, while job resources exhibit a positive effect in mitigating stress. However, the results suggest that the influence of job resources acting as a cushion to alleviate the effects of high job demands on work stress was not observed to be significant. This implies that, although job resources may offer some protective benefits, they do not fully counteract the detrimental effects of job demands on stress levels in the higher education teaching environment. Therefore, higher education institutions should simultaneously decrease and increase the job demands and job resources, respectively, to minimize the likelihood of work stress among their teaching faculty.