Aside from one study in another
Malaysian city that found a similar prevalence among female clerical workers it is difficult to make compaisons with the prevalence of job stress in other Malaysian
studies not based on the Job Strain Mode paradigm. However, the respondents in this study were
of mixed ethnicity and job types and were younger
and of higher education level. Similarly, a high proportion
of the workers (35%) were classified in the passive group
and only 17% of office workers in this multinational company were in the active group. In comparison with two
European studies of white-collar workers, the prevalence
of high job strain in this study is slightly lower than that
among Whitehall study participants (22%) and Dutch municipal employees (24%)