The relationship of TV news reporters? job stress, physical and mental health The relationship of TV news reporters? job and stress, physical and mental health leisure activit

[[abstract]]There are few countries in the world like Taiwan, which owns small land and population but has plenty TV news channels, including four radio TV stations and seven cable TV news channels. Moreover the time slot for news programs has been increasing from four hours to nineteen hours per day. As a result, under such a competitive commercial environment of media, all the TV company owners and supervisors could very possibly demand their reporters to hustle to provide exclusive news or fabricate unique news in order to satisfy and stimulate most of the audiences, which are the only way to predominate the advertising market. The primary purpose of this study is to figure out the relationships between the stress, physical and mental health, and the participation in leisure and recreation activities of TV reporters and associated staff whereby we can be clearer about their states of bodies and minds as well as common diseases resulting from their particular career. Besides we are expecting to find out whether their diseases are caused by work pressures. Would it be able to reduce their work pressures and enhance their physical and mental health through participating in the leisure and recreation activities? The research objects of this study involve ten renowned domestic TV stations. We deliver 350 questionnaires are delivered after deducting 11 invalid ones, 312 valid questionnaires in total are recycled. The rate of recycling is 89.14% and use the software of SPSS 12.0 to do statistics analysis. According to the result of this research we discover that in spite of TV reporters? hard work the feedback which they receive is relatively minimal. They feel stressful with their work and their health is getting worse seriously. The news-composing reporters? participation in leisure and recreation activities is obviously different from those reporters? who are in charge photographing and film editing. The manifest difference also exists in their work pressures; the physical and mental health between the above two positions differentiates even more radically. Moreover there are vividly close connections between the work pressures of TV reporters and their physical and mental health; meanwhile the work pressures have great impact on their physical and mental health