ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the challenge–hindrance framework to examine the relationship between job stressors and burn-out among self-employed and organization-employed professionals. It attempts to explain why self-employed workers are highly stressed but, yet, express only moderate levels of strain. Job-related stressors and burnout were assessed among self-employed and organization-employed professionals working as accountants, lawyers, pharmacists and psychologists. The chapter explores the recommendation and investigated the relationship between job-related stressors and burnout, as a psychological strain, among self-employed, in comparison to organization-employed workers. It also explains to contribute in understanding the processes in the stressor-strain model by employing the challenge–hindrance stressors framework and examines the relationships between job-related stressors and strain among self-employed workers who were found to be highly resilient to stress. Few studies compared self-employed and organization-employed workers with regard to stress. The relationship between job stressors and burnout among self-employed workers was rarely studied.
