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The purpose of this study was to investigate job stressors and personality characteristics as the predictors of the psychosomatic symptoms of the staff of Bidboland refinery in Ahwaz. The subjects were 83 employees who were selected based on their medical files. The healthy sample consisted of 119 employees who were selected through simple random sampling. Altogether, 202 employees answered the negative act, effort-reward imbalance, job content, work-family conflict, organizational justice, and NEO personality (except openness and agreeableness) questionnaires. In order to analyze the main hypothesis, discriminant analysis using enter and stepwise methods were applied and to validate the analysis, Pearson’s correlation and confirmatory factor analysis were used. Results indicated that the discriminant equation confirmed the main hypothesis. In other words, job stressors and personality characteristics, were able to predict the probability of psychosomatic symptom increase.
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