Strengthening Resilience: Work Stress, Coping Strategies, and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL)

Abstract

Objective: To examine the interrelationships between perceived work stress, coping strategies, resilience, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among factory workers. It focused on understanding how coping mechanisms and psy-chological resilience influence stress and overall well-being in occupational settings.
Methodology: A cross-sectional quantitative design was used, involving 200 full-time employees from a master tile facto-ry. Participants aged 21–60 years with at least one year of employment were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected via structured, face-to-face interviews incorporating the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), Brief COPE Inventory, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10), and the SF-36 Health Survey. Descriptive statistics sum-marized the data, and Pearson correlation assessed relationships among variables. Ethical approval and verbal in-formed consent were secured.
Results: Findings revealed that 40.5% of participants experienced mild stress, 24.5% moderate, and 17% high stress. Adaptive coping strategies such as humor (23%), active coping (21%), and emotional support (20.5%) were most com-monly used. Resilience scores indicated that 64 participants had high resilience and 58 had moderate to high levels. HRQoL results showed that 61% had well to excellent quality of life, while 21.5% reported poor to very poor health. Cor-relation analysis demonstrated significant associations: stress negatively correlated with resilience (r = -0.45) and HRQoL (r = -0.52), while resilience positively correlated with HRQoL (r = 0.48). Coping strategies positively correlated with both resilience (r = 0.35) and HRQoL (r = 0.31).
Conclusion: Stress reduction and enhanced HRQoL are associated with greater resilience and adaptive coping mecha-nisms. These results lend credence to the necessity of workplace mental health programs that emphasize good coping and resilience-building.

Key words: Resilience, Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), Occupational health, Stress management, Adaptive cop-ing, Mental health.