A Study to Explore the Relation within Firefighters’ Work Stress, Leisure Involvement, Job Satisfaction and Performance

[[abstract]]現今快速發展之社會中，工作壓力為多數人罹患之文明病之一，尤其在工作複雜度高，種類又多的消防工作當中。本研究參考許多壓力釋放及調整之文獻，發現休閒活動參與是可有效降低、解除壓力之方法，因此希望藉由休閒活動參與來改善工作壓力及工作滿意度及績效之關係。本論文採用問卷方式進行調查，以現行臺中市消防人員為研究對象，有效問卷共162份，採用SPSS統計軟體進行分析；包含描述性統計分析、單因子變數分析、獨立樣本T檢定及相關變異分析等方法。 本研究分析之結果如下：(1)消防人員工作壓力與休閒活動參與有中度相關。(2)消防人員工作壓力與工作滿意度及績效呈現低度相關。(3)消防人員休閒活動參與與工作滿意度及績效呈中度相關。 Working under great stress is turning into one of mandatory civilization diseases in the fast developing society; especially to firefighters who work with highly complicated situations. After reading stressed releated articles, we found out that having leisure activities are really an effective way to release pressure. Therefore, explore the relation within Firefighters’ work stress, leisure involvement, job satisfaction and performance should be important. This thesis is conducted by questionnaires and selected Taichung firefighters as research objects. In the end, there are 200 firefighters filled out the questionnaries, and 162 of them are valid. Then, SPSS statistic software is used as research tool to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multi-factor regression analysis are all used in this research. The findings of this study were as follows:(1) The work pressure of firefighters is moderate related to the participation of leisure activities. (2) The work pressure of firefighters is lowly related with job satisfaction and performance. (3) The participation of firefighters in leisure activities is moderately related to job satisfaction and performance