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The present study examined (1) the effect of psychological variables such as self-esteem, collective self-esteem, and big five personality factors(i.e., neuroticism or emotional unstableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and openness) on the stress among pastors in Korea, (2) the relationship between the stress of pastors and their well - being(both subjective well - being and psychological well-being), (3) the hypothetical model on the relationship among the 3 psychological variables, stress and subjective well-being and (4) difference in level of stress, its predictors and well-being between pastors in terms of demographic variables(i.e., age, gender, marital status, number of church members, and etc.) The Stress Scale for Pastors was constructed to consist of 5 situational stress factors(i.e., self- related, others - related, pastoral duties -related, family - related, and financial status-related) and 1 affective stress factor. A total of 197 Korean pastors participated in the study, and they responded to the survey containing 269 items from 6 scales(i.e., the stress scale, the 3 scales of psychological variables, and the 2 well- being scales). The results demonstrated that self-esteem and collective self-esteem were significantly related to all of the stress factors. Of personality factors, the neuroticism(emotional unstableness) was the most important. And the all factors of stress were significantly related to the subjective well -being, with the highest correlation with life satisfaction. Most of the psychological well-being factors were also significantly related to the stress, and the self-acceptance and environmental mastery were the most important. The more self-accepting as an individual and the more competent in controlling his/her environment a pastor is, the less stress he/she experiences. The hypothetical model on the relationship among the three set of variables, i.e., the 3 psychological predictors of stress, stress, and the life satisfaction was proposed, and the path analysis was performed. All measures of the goodness-of-fit and badness - of - fit indicated that the hypothetical model was supported by the path analysis. As far as the demographic variables are concerned, the results showed that male pastors experienced more situational stress than female pastors. And the stress was higher in younger pastors than older ones, especially on self - related, others - related, and affective stress. This is related to the findings that the younger pastors were lower in both self-esteem and collective self-esteem than older pastors. As expected, the married pastors experienced more financial stress than the single pastors, and the pastors working in a small church whose number of members is under 100 felt much more stress than the ones with larger group of church members. The implications as well as limitations of the present study and the future directions of the research in this area were discussed