Foreigners and Workplace Stress

Ali Soylu

DOI: 10.2190/IE.12.4.d

Abstract

This article describes a model that specifies the causes and consequences of stress specific to the situation of foreign workers. The model proposes that the effect of foreign employee status on perceived stress is fully mediated by residential insecurity, job insecurity, local social networks, role ambiguity, and perceived discrimination. These conditions were selected because they are known causes of workplace stress and especially relevant to the situation of foreign employees. In addition to these mediating effects, I suggest that foreign status is a moderator that intensifies the effects of job insecurity, role ambiguity, and perceived discrimination on stress, as well as moderating the effect of stress on job satisfaction, depression, and health. I also propose collectivist values may intensify the effects on foreign workers of stress from residential insecurity, job insecurity, local social networks, role ambiguity, and perceived discrimination.

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