ABSTRACT
The bored, frustrated automobile assembly-line worker, the pressured ulcer-ridden executive—these stereotypes depict man at opposite ends of the work complexity continuum. They indicate the radically different types of work environment that coexist in our society and emphasize their possible impact on the worker. Data were obtained from a questionnaire survey of male workers in Victoria, British Columbia in 1970. Usable questionnaires were returned by 1143 of 2180 men, for a response rate of about 52 percent. In the analysis, several groups were omitted leaving a total of 780 men for analysis. An index of psychological well-being was constructed by combining an item tapping self-assessed happiness with a ten-item index measuring the number of psychological symptoms experienced. That is, it is assumed that a person is high in psychological well-being if he is both happy and shows few psychological symptoms, and vice-versa.
