The Relationship between Gratitude and Job Stress Guard Officers at State Prison

Kartika Sari, Mirza, Devy Novianty, Arum Sulistyani

2019

Abstract

Job is one of the primary needs of individuals. In working, not only have individuals always be in the enjoyable situation, they also have pressures that lead to stress. Individual workers face a different stress; some people deal it negatively, while the other deal it positively. Gratitude encourages positive emotions. The presence of positive emotions can eliminate the negative emotions which reduce the job stress levels of individual. This research aims to determine the relationship between the gratitude and job stress on guard officers in the state prison. The sampling technique used in this study is saturated sampling where all the 40 guard officer populations were used as the sample. The two measuring instruments used in this study were adaptation scale-6 Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6) developed by McCullough, Emmons, and Tsang and the scale of occupational stress scale (OSS) developed by House, McMichael, Wells, Kaplan, and Landerman. The results of data analysis using Pearson correlation technique showed a correlation coefficient (r) of - 0.492 with p = 0.001 (p <0.05). Based on these results, the hypothesis is accepted which can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between the negative emotions and gratitude with job stress on guard officers in state prison. The results also indicated that the State Prison guard officers have a high category of gratitude with low job stress.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sari K., Mirza., Novianty D. and Sulistyani A. (2019). The Relationship between Gratitude and Job Stress Guard Officers at State Prison.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy, ISBN 978-989-758-448-0, pages 29-39. DOI: 10.5220/0009437000290039

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpsy19,
author={Kartika Sari and Mirza and Devy Novianty and Arum Sulistyani},
title={The Relationship between Gratitude and Job Stress Guard Officers at State Prison},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,},
year={2019},
pages={29-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009437000290039},
isbn={978-989-758-448-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,
TI - The Relationship between Gratitude and Job Stress Guard Officers at State Prison
SN - 978-989-758-448-0
AU - Sari K.
AU - Mirza.
AU - Novianty D.
AU - Sulistyani A.
PY - 2019
SP - 29
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0009437000290039