The prior studies have well established the factors of correctional staff’s stress at
work. However, it is not clearly identified gender-specific factors influencing female
correctional officers’ level of stress. Thus, this study aims to examine factors particularly
influencing female correctional officers’ stress, such as child-rearing and work conflict,
overwork bounden, and strains from male-oriented organizational culture. This current
data utilized a set of survey data drawn from female correctional officers from 124
prisons located in different regions in this nation. Finally, a total of 172 female
correctional officers’s survey data was used for the analysis. A set of multivariate
analyses reveal that security staff role, satisfaction for life, positive perception toward
correctional officers’ leadership in prison decreased the risk of stress among female
correctional officers. Regarding work-job conflicts variables, child-rearing and work
conflict and strains from male-oriented organizational culture were significantly associated
with female correctional officers’ stress. Yet, the direction of the two variables were
different. For female officers, child-rearing and work conflict was not a risk factor for
stress in that i decreased the level of stress. But the variable of strains from
male-oriented organizational culture was a risk factor for female officers’ stress level.
Further suggestions for the future studies, discussion on contributions of the current
study and policy implications were discussed in the last part of this article.