The role of job stress, religious orientation and social orientation in predicting of quality of life in social workers

Subject Areas : social psychology

ameneh shahandeh ¹ , zahra moammeri ² , hamid hamidfar ³ , sadra alipour ⁴ , Samineh Bahadori Jahromi ⁵ , Sohiela Payan ⁶

1 - Instructor, Department of Islamic Education, Payam Noor University, West Azerbaijan, Iran
2 - MA of Counseling, Bachelor of Social Work Imam Khomeini Aid Committee of Guchan, Khorasan Razavi, Iran
3 - MA of Communications Sociology, Deputy of Development of People's Participation of Imam Khomeini Aid Committee of Guchan, Khorasan Razavi, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Education, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
5 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, BandarAbbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, BandarAbbas, Iran
6 - Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Education, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran

Received: 2017-01-08 Accepted : 2017-05-05 Published : 2017-06-22

Keywords: Religious orientation, quality of life, Job Stress, social workers, social orientation,

Abstract :

This research aimed to investigate the role of job stress, religious orientation and social orientation in predicting of quality of life in social workers. This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlation. The population of research was included all social workers of Imam Khomeini aid committee of Razavi Khorasan province in 2017 year that from them 160 person were selected by cluster sampling method. All of them completed the questionnaires of job stress (Osipow, 1987), religious orientation (Allport & Ross, 1967), social orientation (Harrison, 2001) and quality of life (World Health Organization, 2004). Data was analyzed with Pearson correlation and multivariate regression with enter model methods. The results showed a negative and significant relationship between job stress with quality of life in social workers and a positive and significant relationship between internal religious orientation and social orientation with quality of life in social workers, but there wasn’t any significant relationship between external religious orientation with quality of life in social workers. Also the predicted variables significantly could predict 24/1 percent of variance of quality of life in social workers (P<0/05). Based the results it is suggest that counselors and therapists to improve the quality of life in social workers, the first decrease their job stress and then increase their internal religious orientation and social orientation.