A Field Research on the Relationship Between Occupational Stress and Satisfaction

This research was conducted to examine the phenomenon of job satisfaction in the context of job stress and was carried out with 319 academicians working at a state university in the Western Black Sea region of Turkiye. In the research, the "Job Satisfaction" Scale was used to examine the job satisfaction of academicians, and the "A Job Stress Scale-20" was used to examine their job stress. The data obtained from the research revealed that female academicians' job stress was higher, and their job satisfaction was lower than the men who were examined for the research and that academic staff aged 30 and under had higher job stress and lower job satisfaction than the older employees.