ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the influence of job alienation on general well-being; it is worthwhile looking briefly at well-being on-the-job in the form of overall job morale and felt stress. Cross-tabulations indicate that the higher the alienation, of whatever type, the lower the morale. Well-being at the workplace was measured by two indices. The first was an index of job satisfaction composed of questions tapping overall job satisfaction, job liking, and whether or not the worker would take the same type of job if he could begin again. Physical well-being was measured by combining an item tapping self-assessed health with an index measuring the number of days in the past year incapacitated. Those high on the physical well-being index are men describing themselves as healthy and as experiencing a low number of disability days in the past year and vice versa. The correlations between the psychological and physical well-being scales are moderate, indicating some overlap between the two.
