The relationship between wellness, work stress and personality of prison warders

• Main Authors: Ku Ishak, Awanis, Mohamad, Armanurah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/16388/1/33.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/16388/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

At prison, the front line warders would continually confront both sustaining wellness and controlling strenuous stress at work.Prison warders’ wellness was irrefutable due to intense pressure conditions at the workplace that continuously faltered their wellness.Gradual wellness fluctuation due to excessive stress would severely tarnish performance of prison warders and prison department. Nevertheless,their personality played an important role in conserving their wellness level despite continuous overrun of stress during work. Therefore this paper elaborated on prison warders’ personality and work stress in order to maintain their wellness at work.This research examined the relationship between prison warders’ wellness, their personality and work stress in Prison Department of Malaysia. Pertinent question of the study was to look at influence of prison warders’ personality and work stress on their wellness degree.These findings were significant since prison warders’ wellness, their personality and work stress remained loose issue particularly in Malaysia.Findings revealed that personality and work stress influenced prison warders’ wellness.