An employee assistance program by analyzing the correlation between work stress and dreams for Chinese employees

This paper provides an employee assistance program by analyzing the correlation between work stress and dreams in Chinese people for Chinese employees to release their work stress by describing their dream. This study verifies the validity and reliability of the proposed questionnaire by SEM, investigates dreams and work stress behaviors of Chinese people by the proposed questionnaire, analyzes the collected data by ANOVA, and Canonical Correlation Analysis, and provides an employee assistance program according to the analysis. The results show that Chinese people have high canonical correlation coefficient between dreams and work stress behaviors. The results show how Chinese people release their work stress in conscious and unconscious ways, which can help human resource managers in counseling on work stress for Chinese employees, consulting clients from work stress, and planning the Employee Assistance Programs.