Qualitative study on Chinese workforce well-being in Lisbon

• Autor(a) principal: Zhiting Feng
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27251
• topic: Chinese worker; Bem-estar -- Well-being; Work-related stress; Coping strategy; Lisbon; Bem-estar do trabalhador chinês; O stress relacionado com o trabalho; Estratégia de enfrentamento; Lisboa

Little is known about work well-being of Chinese workers working in the Chinese business community in Lisbon, Portugal while the number of the Chinese immigrations is developing and raising during the decade. This article focuses on studying the work well-being, work related stress, and coping strategies towards the stressors of this specific group of people. An in-depth face to face interview were used to examine the group, fourteen interviews were conducted with Chinese workers. Interviews were analyzed to identify common themes relating to the work well-being and work-related stress. Overall, six main factors impact on work-related stress were coding out: operation issues of employers or financial issues, interpersonal relationship, social support at work, family-to-work conflict, adaption process, and working conditions. Coping with the above-mentioned stressors, the participants utilized both problem-focused strategies and emotion-focused strategies, including self-adjustment and self-enlightening, seeking assistance, and changing workplace, to reduce stress level. Given the size of the sample, several limitations need to be considered may generate biases. This study adds to the current research and study regarding Chinese workers working in foreign host countries, especially in Lisbon, Portugal.