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commitment and health were also found. These relations were captured by a structural equation
model.
3110.5 Main social stressors and mental health of different occupational groups in social
transition period, Long Chen 1 , Fengge Zhang 2 , 1 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China, 2 Kailuan Group Corp., Tangshan, China
Stress and mental health becomes a more interesting topic to researchers. A survey was conducted
for a stratified random sample of 4872 respondents, which was consisted of manager, worker,
community service, teacher, medical care, unemployment et al. The results suggested that there
were ten factors consisting of 89 items, labeled as: social environment, work-loading,
self-achievement, economic pressure, human relations, social support, family, housing, child-care,
personal life. Evidence of construct validity was shown of association among SCL-90, BPOMS,
GHQ. The result of multiple regression analysis revealed that total stress level had a negative
significantly association with national standard indices of performance.
3110.6 Mutual goal-achieving: Economic performance and well-being, Long Chen 1 ,
Chongyuan Xu 2 , 1 Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
2
Planning and Development Commission of Wuxi People’s Government, China
How to make balance of economic performance and well-being is a central mission of firm during
Chinese social transition period. Data was collected from a stratified random sample of 165 firms
(N=9143), results-feedback and OD was followed. Results of multiple regression suggested that
Environment Uncertainty had negative effect on productivity (sales per employee) and well-being
(GHQ), though the effect of firm’s competitive strategy was significantly positive for both of them.
The profiles of organizational culture according to Hofstede’s classification effect on two goals
were same except with closed system and loose control, which were positive for productivity but
negative for well-being.
3110.7 Managerial stress in Estonia, Mare Teichmann 1 , Paul Spector 2 , Cary Cooper 3 , Kate
Sparks 4 , 1 Tallinn Technical University, Estonia, 2 University of South Florida, USA, 3 University of
Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
The present study aims at examining the stressors among managers (N=163) in Estonia. Research
has held by Occupational Stress Indicator-2 (OSI2), which reliability and validity is investigated
and reported by CISMS. As expected, female managers (N=43) were under the higher pressure by
managerial role/tasks than male managers. Younger managers main stressors at work were
insufficient recognition (p