The study investigated job stress and the psychological well-being of
library employees. It closely looked into role predictors of job stress namely,
role ambiguity and role conflict as well as physical work environment issues;
to determine their relationships on the psychological well-being of library
staff in selected University libraries in South-West Nigeria. Survey research
design was used for the study. The
population consisted of 125 library staff. Sampling was total enumeration so as
to accommodate all the library staff. Structured questionnaire was employed
for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using frequency, percentage
counts and mean. The general findings on job stress revealed that respondents
had challenges with technology and excess or quantity of workload. Job stress
resulting from role ambiguity was that the respondents were not certain of how much authority they have. As regards
role conflict, majority of the respondents stated that it did not cause them
any job stress. They also perceived their work environment as stress free.
Findings from the hypotheses revealed that role ambiguity, role conflict, and
work environment have a positive significant relationship on psychological
well-being of the respondents. Based on these findings, this study made some
recommendations.
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