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5.5 ConclusionThis study has been very fruitful in identifying the psychological health symptoms amongself-employed and organizationally employed accountants in Malaysia. Furthermore, itreveals the mediating role played by work stressors and by coping strategy in the stressmodel relationship.This study adds an additional body of knowledge that employment type (representingauthority on decision making) has same impact on self-employed and organizationallyemployed accountants while gaining additional understanding on the mediating role ofwork stressor in a employment type and coping strategy relationship. This study furtherconfirms the earlier study by Haskins, et. al (1991) that coping assumes a mediating roleis the stress model on work stress and psychological health symptoms.There have been several calls for companies to do something about stress at work as webecome more aware of its multiple ill-effects. Researches have explored to a certainextent in some industries and the focus continues in order to encourage all industries tofollow suit. It is very interesting to note that researches has been fairly consistent inrelation to occupational stress as articles published thirty years ago (Beehr and Newman,1978) had only several conclusions changed a little compared to book published fifteenyears ago (Beehr.A Terry, 1995) and now , we have taken it further in this currentresearch.68