AU - Noroozi, Ali AU - Abdolshah, Mohhammad TI - A structural model of affecting factors on job stress with the mediating role of depression (Case Study: The employees of Golestan’s gas corporation) PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - IOH JN - IOH VO - 15 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://ioh.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1962-en.html 4100 - http://ioh.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1962-en.pdf SO - IOH 2 AB  - Background and aims: Many investigations with the aim of studying the affecting factor on job stress (JS) were conducted. But it can't be find a study attempted to investigate the impact of Quality of Work Life (QWL), General Health (GH), Physical Activity (PA) and Depression (DE) on Job Stress using Structural equation modeling (SEM). So the aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between QWL, GH, PA and JS with the mediating role of DE. Methods: Methodology was descriptive- correlation and the Data was collected with standard questionnaire that the validity and reliability of them was approved. The Statistical society consist of all the employees of Golestan Gas Corporation that total number of them is 853. So number of 310 of them were selected as statistical sample with classified sampling method. For analyzing data, the SPSS v24 and AMOS v24 was used. Results: The SEM result shows that there is a significant relationship between QWL, PA and DE with JB (P<0.05). As the same, the relation between QWL, GH, and PA with DE was significant (P<0.05). Moreover the SEM result showed that DE is a mediator in the relationship between QWL and GH with JS. Conclusion: As the DE mediation effect was approved in this study, the organization can help to decrease the positive effect of QWL and GH on JS through decreasing employees DE and it finally leads to decreasing the level of JS. CP - IRAN IN - Abdolshah@gmail.com LG - eng PB - IOH PG - 54 PT - Research YR - 2018