ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1629075
The relationships of character strengths with job stress, mental wellbeing and perceived stress among financial professionals
Provisionally accepted
Talgat Kutebayev1*
Robert Lee Lloyd2- 1L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan
- 2University of Minnesota, Dul, United States
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Character strengths have been related to job stress, mental wellbeing and perceived stress, however, little is known about these associations among financial professionals. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between character strengths, job stress, mental wellbeing and perceived stress in this occupational group. Data were collected from 523 financial professionals in Kazakhstan using the Job Stress Survey, Values in Action Inventory of Strengths-Virtues 6, Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale and Perceived Stress Scale. Regression analysis revealed that interpersonal strengths negatively predicted job stress, while intellectual strengths positively predicted job stress. Results showed that emotional, interpersonal and theological strengths positively predicted mental wellbeing, with theological strengths as the strongest predictor. The study also found that emotional, restraint and theological strengths negatively predicted perceived stress, and emotional strengths were revealed as the strongest predictor. The findings provide novel insights for organizations to develop preventive interventions based on character strengths for effective stress management, particularly perceived stress, and enhancing mental wellbeing.
Keywords: Character strengths, Job stress, Mental wellbeing, perceived stress, Financial professionals
Received: 29 May 2025; Accepted: 22 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kutebayev and Lloyd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Talgat Kutebayev, t_kutebayev@kazguu.kz
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