Quality of work life as a key determinant of mental health in the workplace Focus on Depression and Job Stress
                                                
                                                    
                                                             Seyedeh Forough  Fathi 
                                                            
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                                                            Seyed Mohammad Reza  Fathi
                                                            
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                                                Master of Agricultural Engineering, Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran
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Keywords: Keywords: Depression, Job Stress, Iranian railway industrial company, Quality of Work Life.,
Abstract :
Review The quality of work life is one of the key factors in improving the mental health of employees and reducing problems such as depression and job stress. This research is fundamental in terms of purpose and correlational in terms of method. The statistical population of this study includes all employees which is 160 people and 113 people were selected as a sample from among the employees by systematic random sampling method and answered the Arwen Beck Depression Questionnaire (BDI) which was developed in 1961, the Occupational Stress Questionnaire (HSE) which was developed in 1990 and the Walton Quality of Work Life Questionnaire (QWL) which was developed in 1973. In this study, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and regression were used and the data were analyzed through SPSS software and finally the results of linear regression analysis indicate that the significance level of quality of work life is 0.001 and less than the statistical error (0.05), that is, the considered regression model is significant and the quality of work life of employees is significant at a significant level (0.05) about 59.3% of the Predict employee depression and at a significant level (0.05) about 36.7% are able to predict employees' job stress. These findings can be the basis for strategies to improve working conditions and reduce depression in organizations. Managers of companies can prevent the psychological consequences of depression and job stress of employees by paying more attention to the quality of work life factor of employees.
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