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Muhasebe ve Finansman Dergisi, no.83, pp.249-262, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
It is known that accounting professionals experience stress throughout their career, which has a significant impact
on accountants’ productivity and quality of life. Especially, in Turkey, occupational stress factors have an important role in
the low level of participation of women in business life. The aim of this study is to reveal the main causes of professional
stress that affect female accounting professionals. Also, it was studied whether the level of influence of occupational stress
differs according to the demographic variables. Therefore a 2-part questionnaire was applied to female accounting
professionals working in Kayseri Province and then factor analysis was applied to datas which were collected from
participants. By this way 9 factors were determined. After that analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied to the factors and
it was observed that the level of influence of the female accounting professionals from working time among working
condition factors, communication with the stakeholders among professional experience factors, and perceptual factors
according to age and education level differed significantly.