Examining the State of Job Stress in Security Jobs

Psychological pressure seriously affects the performance of human resources, and this effect is more visible especially in difficult jobs and stressful conditions of security and information. In this research, which was carried out using descriptive-analytical method in order to investigate the state of occupational stress in security jobs, 60 employees were randomly selected as a statistical sample, and the sources of psychological stress were determined using a standard and researcher-made questionnaire. After conducting the test, collecting information and analyzing data with spss software and the results obtained from it, 9 sources of psychological pressure (role workload, role incompetence, role duality, role scope, responsibility, physical environment, welfare, family, social and communication dimension) were investigated. The results were that the most source of stress was related to the welfare dimension, followed by the dimensions of role burden, responsibility, role inadequacy, communication, role scope, family-social, physical environment, and finally role duality played a role in people’s stress.