title: A Causal Relationship of Occupational Stress among University Employees.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. Recently, staff network of different government universities of Thailand have called higher education commission, and Ministry of Education, Thailand to resolve the issue of government education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor welfare, law, and job & environment condition) that leads to their job insecurity, physical and mental health problems from occupational stress. The aim of this study was to investigate a causal relationship of occupational stress among the academic university employees.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross sectional research was conducted in 2014 among 2,000 academic university employees at Thai government universities using stratified random sampling. Independent variables were wage, family support, periods of duty, and job & environmental condition. Dependent variable was stress.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Job & environmental condition, as social and environmental factor, and periods of duty as individual factor had direct effect to stress (P< 0.05). Family support, as family factor, and wage, as individual factor had direct effect to stress (P < 0.05). Both family support and wage were the causal endogenous variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Job & environmental condition and periods of duty were increased so that it associated with occupational stress among academic university employees at moderate level.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, Thailand 13000.
authors.forename: Chonticha
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kaewanuchit
authors.affiliation: Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto K51P8, Canada.
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Muntaner
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Management and Humanities, University Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia 32610.
authors.forename: Nizam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Isha
keywords: Causal relationship; Occupational stress; Thailand; University employees