@article{ahmad_how_2021,
	title = {How does occupational stress affect individuals employed in textiles? {An} exploratory study from {Pakistan}},
	volume = {72},
	issn = {12225347},
	shorttitle = {How does occupational stress affect individuals employed in textiles?},
	url = {http://revistaindustriatextila.ro/images/2021/5/007%20AFTAB%20AHMAD%20Industria%20Textila%20no%205_2021.pdf},
	doi = {10.35530/IT.072.05.20204},
	abstract = {Occupational stress among the employees has become a major concern for the organizations without exemption for the
textile and clothing industry, a major manufacturing industry of the developing countries. In Pakistan, it contributes 8.5\%
to the GDP and is a source of employment for 30\% of the workforce. This research aims at exploring the effects of job
stress amongst the individuals employed in textiles. For the purpose, data was collected from 1212 textile industry
employees. Deployment of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the information collected resulted four stress impact
factors, namely psychological, behavioural, performance and effectiveness, and physical. The factors described an
overall accumulative variance of 60.87\%, with psychological as the most significant, explaining 40\% of the total. Results
of this work disclose that how Occupational Stress affect the employees of textile and clothing industry. There is a need
to understand the complexity of stress phenomenon so that the stress management intervention strategies could be
designed and implemented accordingly. Findings of this research may be helpful in unfolding the complexity of stress
phenomenon  and  these  can  be  used  as  a  guideline  for  the  design  and  promotion  of  more  acceptable  and  viable
approaches or strategies for real-time benefits realization at individual and organizational level in terms of higher job
satisfaction, motivation and productivity.},
	number = {05},
	urldate = {2021-10-31},
	journal = {Industria Textila},
	author = {Ahmad, Aftab and Hussain, Amjad and Ahmad, Ayyaz and Shaheen, Lubna and Abrar, Usama and Ahmad Khan, Farzan},
	month = oct,
	year = {2021},
	pages = {515--520},
}