Social support and Religiosity as Coping Strategies for Reducing Job Stress

The present study carried out on 70 Administrative staff of University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur with the aim to examine religiosity and social support as coping strategies and their influence on reducing job stress and employee' well-being in administrative staff of Malaysian learning institutions. The determinants of job stress included under this research are workload pressure, homework interface, and performance pressure. Researchers used a set of questionnaires to collect data. The results show that coping strategies positively related with social support and religiosity and negatively related with job strain. Finding also revealed that religiosity significantly related with social support and coping strategies negatively related with job strain.