RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPTIMISM WITH WORK STRESS IN SALES MARKETING PT ASURANSI JIWASRAYA

Abstract

Work stress is a condition where individuals experienced incompatibility between work with skill and ability that they have on implementing their jobs which caused discomfort on themselves. Work stress is actually determined by the sales marketing itself, besides having to adjust the existing work system, a sales marketing must also have optimistic attitude. Optimism is a one’s self confidence who views a problem and difficulty will lead to a good direction.

This study aims to examine whether there is a relationship between optimism with work stress on sales marketing at PT. Asuransi Jiwasraya.  Data collection was carried out by questionerre method and processed using SPSS version 23. Total of respondents is 76 people, consisting of 25 males and 51 females. The realibility test results of the measuring instrument for work stress is 0, 871 dan for the optimism scale is 0,864. Hypothesis testing in this study uses Pearson Product Moment correlation. Based on data analysis, the results show that there is a significant relationship between optimism and work stress, with a significance value of -0.375 (p <0.01) which means there is a negative relationship between optimism and work stress in PT Asuransi Jiwasraya sales marketing.