Role of Stress and Locus of Control in Job Satisfaction Among Middle Managers.

The present study was conducted on 210 managers from different private sector organizations to examine the role of stress (role stress) and locus of control on job satisfaction. In this study, stress and locus of control were treated as predictor variables, whereas satisfaction was used as a criterion variable. For measurement of role stress, Occupational Stress Index (OSI) (Srivastava and Singh, 1981) was used; for measurement of locus of control, Social Reaction Inventory (Rotter, 1966) was used; and for measurement of job satisfaction, S-D Employees' Inventory (Pestonjee, 1979) was used. The results of correlation indicated that role overload was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total satisfaction; role ambiguity was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management; and role conflict was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total satisfaction. Overall stress was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total satisfaction. Locus of control was significantly negatively correlated to satisfaction with management and total satisfaction. The results of step-wise multiple regression analysis showed that total stress contributed 7.4% variance in explaining satisfaction with management, and role conflict contributed 7.1% variance in explaining total satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]