Effect of a Job Demand-Control-Social Support Model on Accounting Professionals’ Health Perception

Abstract

The Job Demand-Control and Job Demand-Control-Support (JDCS) models constitute the theoretical approaches used to analyze the relationship between the characteristics of labor and occupational health. Few studies have investigated the main effects and multiplicative model in relation to the perceived occupational health of professional accountants. Accountants are subject to various types of pressure in performing their work; this pressure influences their health and, ultimately, their ability to perform a job well. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of job demands on the occupational health of 739 accountants, as well as the role of the moderator that internal resources (locus of control) and external resources (social support) have in occupational health. The proposed hypotheses are tested by applying different models of neural networks using the algorithm of the Extreme Learning Machine. The results confirm the relationship between certain stress factors that affect the health of the accountants, as well as the direct effect that the recognition of superiors in occupational health has. Additionally, the results highlight the moderating effect of professional development and the support of superiors on the job’s demands.

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“…When dealing with risk factors, such as the demands placed on a professional or a lack of social support, which are neither tangible nor explicitly defined––being, rather, features of the psychosocial work environment––evaluating their adverse consequences in terms of well-being is complicated [25]. Since it was developed, the job demands-control-support (JDCS) model [26,27] has been widely used to explain the relationships between the psychosocial aspects of work and work-related well-being and health [6,25,28,29,30,31]. In 1979, Robert Karasek introduced the job demand-control (JDC) model, which comprises two basic dimensions: psychological job demands and control [25,32].…”

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“…This extended model became known as the job demand-control-support model (JDCS) [26,27]. Two hypotheses have been derived on the basis of this model: the (iso)strain hypothesis, which states that a combination of heavy job demands, limited job control, and a lack of social support are stressful and negatively predictive of workers’ well-being [6,25,30,31,33,36], and the buffer hypothesis, which predicts that control (and social support) can provide a buffer against the potential negative effects of heavy demands on well-being and health [25,33,36].…”

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