Laxman Basel presented a journal club on the article "A study of occupational stress on job satisfaction among teachers with particular reference to corporate, higher secondary school of Nepal". The presentation summarized the article, which examined the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction in 268 teachers in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. It found that over 50% of teachers reported high occupational stress, mainly due to heavy workload. Stress was negatively associated with job satisfaction. The presentation critically reviewed the article's methodology, findings, and relevance to research on healthy workplaces and teacher job satisfaction.

1. Journal Club Presentation
Presented By:
Name: Laxman Basel
Roll No: 13 (Thirteen)
BPH, VIII Semester, SHAS, PU.
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2. Presented for the partial fulfillment of requirement
of
PHA 451 Journal Club/Health Seminar
of
Bachelor of Public Health, VIII Semester,
School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University
under the cardinal supervision of
Assistant Professor Dr. Hari Prasad Kaphle
By
Laxman Basel
Symbol numbe:17370190
2016-1-37-0114
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3. Selected Article for Presentation
• D P Kayastha, R Kayastha .
• A study of occupational stress on job satisfaction among teachers with
particular reference to corporate, higher secondary school of Nepal
• Asian Journal of Management Sciences & Education (AJMSE) .
2012; Volume: 1; page no. 52-62
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4. Journal Information
• Asian Journal of Management Sciences & Education (AJMSE)
• aims to serve researchers and scholars throughout prompt publications of
significant advances in any branch of science and management.
• major objective of AJMSE is to help professionals working in fields, educators,
training providers and policy makers to disseminate informations and to learn
from each others performance.
• http://ajmse.leena-luna.co.jp
• Publisher of Journal: Leena and Luna International, Japan.
• Online ISSN:2186-845X, Print ISSN:2186-8441
• Vol 2, July 2012
• Impact factor: 0.895 (Global Impact Factor)
• Publication Fee: 4000 words, 100 US$
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5. Publishing history: Leena and Luna International, was established as in
April 2010 to contribute in research culture. In 2012, this organization
launched the Asian Journal of Management Sciences and Education to
promote a research culture of open communication, continuous learning
improvement.
Editors-in-chief:
• Dr. Houshmand E. Masoumi, Center for Technology and Society, Technical
University of Berlin, GER
• Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Malik, President, Leena and Luna International,
Oyama, Japan
• editor.ajmse@leena-luna.co.jp
editor2.ajmse@gmail.com
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6. Indexed in:
• Index Copernicus
• Open Academics Journal Index
• Genmics
• Electronic Journal Service
• SJIF
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7. • Reduction of occupational stress is an important factor for creation of
healthy workplace. This article presents some of the causes of
occupational stress, and also the measures how to reduce it, which can
help to conduct my study on related topic.
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8. Critical Appraisal of Journal
• Facilitates the knowledge enhancement in the field of management
sciences and educational sciences.
• Indexed in several databases.
• Has regular publication schedule.
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9. Tittle of Article
• A study of occupational stress on job satisfaction among teachers with
particular reference to corporate, higher secondary school of Nepal.
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10. Critical Appraisal of Tittle
• Title is meaningful and complete.
• It focuses one of the emerging issues in these days.
• It gives a glance of the study population.
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11. Authors
• Deepak Kayastha
• Department of Chemistry, Budhanilkantha School
• deepakkayastha@bnks.edu.np
• Rabindra Kayastha
• Department of Natural Sciences (Mathematics),
School of science, Kathmandu University.
• rkayastha@ku.edu.np
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12. Critical Appraisal of Authors
• Number of authors: 2
• Expertise of author is also not mentioned clearly.
• Authors' respective workplace are mentioned.
• Authors credentials is not mentioned clearly.
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13. Abstract
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14. Critical Appraisal of Abstract
• It provides a short summary of the article.
• It is appropriate in length.
• The total sample size in not mentioned in the abstract section.
• It'd be better if the instruments used to determine the occupational
stress and job satisfaction were also mentioned.
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15. Introduction
• Occupational stress often stems from the pressure that do not align with a
person's knowledge, skills or expectations.
• Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from
the appraisal of one's job or job experience.
• Job stress and job satisfaction both can have economic and personal
implications as it can lead to stress related negative impacts.
• This study is likely to examine the extent of interrelation between the job
stress and job satisfaction among higher secondary school teachers.
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16. Critical Appraisal of Introduction
• The key words are clearly described, and also their interrelationships
are established.
• The hypothesis and research questions are not mentioned
• Citations were followed with correct references.
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17. Materials and methods
• Selective sampling, site selection at district level in discussion with DEO
• Sample size: 268
• Study area: Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts
• Data gathered via self-administered questionnaire.
• Tools used:
i) Job Descriptive Index (JDI)
ii) Occupational Stress Index questionnaire (OSI)
iii) SPSS Version 15.0 to analyze the data.
• To determine the reliability of the scale, the internal consistency was
measured using Cronbach’s Alpha value.
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18. Critical Appraisal of Materials and Methods
• Ethical approval was taken.
• Inclusion criteria is defined.
• Data collection tools have been described properly.
• Non response rate is not given.
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19. Results
• respondent male: 80.6%, female: 19.4%
• 51.03%(n=133) of the respondents scored above the mean score on the
OSI indicating high levels of occupational stress.
• The study shows that higher occupational stress is resulted due to
heavy workload .
• The top three facets which were found to be satisfactory by the
respondents were; peers in present job, Job in general and work in
present job.
• both instruments used in this study indicated Cronbach’s alpha values
greater than .80 indicating good internal consistency and could be seen
to be more reliable.
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20. Critical Appraisal of Results
• Presented in both tabulated and textual form.
• A lot of missing data in the findings may not determine the correct
result.
• Based on aim and objectives of the study.
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21. Discussion
• Snap shot of some portion of discussion
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22. Critical Appraisal of Discussion
• The limitations of the study is not clearly mentioned.
• All the obtained findings are logically reviewed.
• Important findings are highlighted with enough explanations.
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23. Conclusion and recommendations
• The findings indicate that occupational stress have a significant relationship
with overall job satisfaction.
• Occupational stress is negatively associated with satisfaction towards work
pressure, pays, supervision, promotion and peer group during jobs.
• Self-administered questionnaires are based entirely on the respondents
honesty and how they perceived their attitudes towards the variables used in
this study.
• These findings are not a prediction of the actual study to be conducted but
the data will be useful when developing a research hypothesis for the study.
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24. Critical Appraisal of Conclusion
• Conclusion is meaningful and believable.
• It'd be better, if it had open new doors for further research.
• No new hypothesis is generated and presented as conclusion.
• No specific recommendations are made based on the research.
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25. References
• Snap shot of a portion of References
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26. Critical Appraisal of References
• References are easily accessible.
• All the references are accurate and enough for the study.
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27. Strengths
• This study is able to provide some insights that can be considered as
intervening elements of occupational stress and job satisfaction,
• The abstract of study is clearly described so that the interpretation of
the relation among given components could be understandable.
• Studied on one of the most critical issues in these days.
• Written or verbal consent was taken from every respondent.
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28. Weaknesses
• Operated only among the teachers of higher secondary level.
• Hypothesis of the study is not mentioned.
• Research questions are not mentioned in the study.
• Lots of missing results in demographic variables.
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29. Overall significance of the article
• The findings are believable because standard tools for findings were
used by experts.
• The findings of this study is applicable to various sectors ranging from
an educational institute to policy makers.
• This study can be useful for a broader group of population in not only
the teaching sectors, but also in other working sectors, to reduce the
occupational stress and increasing the job satisfaction.
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30. Contribution of article to my research:
"A study of knowledge and attitudes regarding the healthy workplace on
job satisfaction among the secondary level teachers of Gorkha
Municipality."
• This article gives information about some of the causes of
occupational stress and the instruments to measure them.
• References of this article could be helpful.
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31. Questions?
Quarries?
Suggestions?
Feedbacks?
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32. Thank You !!!
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