Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 44 7 2015 10 11 931 938 EN Chonticha KAEWANUCHIT Dept. of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, Thailand 13000. Carles MUNTANER Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto K51P8, Canada. Nizam ISHA Dept. of Management and Humanities, University Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia 32610. 2015 10 11 2015 10 11 Background: Occupational stress is a psychosocial dimension of occupational health concept on social determinants of health, especially, job & environmental condition. Recently, staff network of different government universities of Thailand have called higher education commission, and Ministry of Education, Thailand to resolve the issue of gov-ernment education policy (e.g. wage inequity, poor welfare, law, and job & environment condition) that leads to their job insecurity, physical and mental health problems from occupational stress. The aim of this study was to investigate a causal relationship of occupational stress among the academic university employees. Methods: This cross sectional research was conducted in 2014 among 2,000 academic university employees at Thai government universities using stratified random sampling. Independent variables were wage, family support, periods of duty, and job & environmental condition. Dependent variable was stress. Results: Job & environmental condition, as social and environmental factor, and periods of duty as individual factor had direct effect to stress (P< 0.05). Family support, as family factor, and wage, as individual factor had direct effect to stress (P < 0.05). Both family support and wage were the causal endogenous variables. Conclusion: Job & environmental condition and periods of duty were increased so that it associated with occupation-al stress among academic university employees at moderate level. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/3328 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/3328/3050