Assessment of Work-Related Stress among Algerian Oil and Gas Industry Workers: Insights and Preventive Strategies

Abstract

This research aims first to assess work-related stress and examines the relationships between work-related stress responses in Algerian oil and gas company employees according to age, labor contract, marital status, and having children. Second, the research provides a preventive action plan to promote employees' quality of life.

Cross-sectional data from an oil and gas company relating to 146 employees was used. Work-related stress was measured by the Siegrist questionnaire. The descriptive statistics mean, standard deviation (SD), T-test, F-test, and P-value were used.

The results revealed that employees with fixed-term contracts were the most stressed, with a mean effort-reward imbalance ratio of 1.523. Work-related stress was also significantly related to marital status (F = 7.208, p < 0.0001), and this was more apparent for employees with children. In contrast, a weak significant relationship between work-related stress and age ranges was demonstrated in our study (F = 2.668, p = 0.049).

Algeria's oil and gas employees experienced moderate stress; the results highlight that the type of labor contract and marital status were identified as sources of inequality in the exposure of oil and gas sector employees to work-related stress. This first study conducted in Algeria proposes an intervention plan to prevent long-term work-related stress among these employees.