Effects of Distress and Eustress on Changes in Fatigue from Waking to Working

Parker, Kelsey N.; Ragsdale, Jennifer M.

doi:10.1111/aphw.12049

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“…Acceptance of workplace bullying as a challenge and experiencing healthy stress that is eustress is itself an employee's first step towards career success (Cardon and Patel 2015). Eustress gives employees the energy or flow they need to accomplish their goals (Parker and Ragsdale 2015). It increases their level of motivation and encourages them to work harder, show more creativity and higher performance (Venkatesh and Ram 2015), all of which are solid indicators of career success.…”

Section: Eustress As a Mediating Mechanism In Workplace Bullying And Behaviors Relationshipmentioning

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Is workplace bullying always perceived harmful? The cognitive appraisal theory of stress perspective

Majeed

Naseer

2019

Asia Pac J Human Res

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The present study expands the literature on bullying by unveiling why and when bullying might produce positive outcomes. Employing the cognitive appraisal theory of stress and coping, we hypothesize eustress as an important mechanism through which bullying might enhance the victim's job performance, career success, and creativity. Moreover, we hypothesized psychological capital as a moderator in the workplace bullying-eustress relationship. We collected temporally segregated field data at three time intervals with a time lag of 2-3 weeks from matched data of employees and their fellow peers (n = 321) belonging to the service sector of Pakistan. Utilizing PROCESS macro, the results substantiated our hypothesized moderated mediation model, in that workplace bullying led to higher performance, career success and employee creativity through the mechanism of eustress and this indirect effect was stronger for individuals who possessed higher psychological capital. Our study opens up a new avenue in the workplace bullying literature by emphasizing the different side of bullying in an eastern cultural context.

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Section: Eustress As a Mediating Mechanism In Workplace Bullying And Behaviors Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is workplace bullying always perceived harmful? The cognitive appraisal theory of stress perspective

Majeed

Naseer

2019

Asia Pac J Human Res

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“…One exception, however, is the Academic Eustress Scale (O'Sullivan, 2011), which focuses on the process of responding positively to academic stressors as well as the positive outcomes of this process. In response to the lack of validated, reliable measures, various authors have used positive and negative emotional states as proxy measures of distress and eustress (e.g., J. R. Edwards & Cooper, 1988;Parker & Ragsdale, 2015).…”

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The Adolescent Distress-Eustress Scale: Development and Validation

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Lay definitions tend to conceptualize stress as negative, undesirable, and maladaptive. However, contemporary stress models emphasize the differentiation between negative and positive stress responses, known as distress and eustress. Despite prominent theoretical conceptualisations accepting the existence of eustress, the vast majority of stress measures tend to focus exclusively on the distress response. The current study introduces the Adolescent Distress-Eustress Scale (ADES) which holistically captures both aspects of the stress response, bridging the gap between theory and measurement and counteracting the typically negatively focused approach to stress research. The ADES was systematically developed and tested in a socio-educationally diverse sample of 981 adolescents ( Mage = 15.19, 50.62% female). The finalized self-report scale consists of two 5-item subscales, individually indexing distress and eustress. Initial psychometric properties of the ADES are promising, and the scale has the potential to meet the needs of researchers, schools, and organizations.

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“…Stress that yields positive outcomes, called eustress, can spur an individual to better performance (e.g., experiencing stress about an upcoming test and therefore studying harder and ultimately achieving a better score) (Le Favre, Matheny, and Kolt 2003). When used colloquially, however, individuals who use the word stress are generally referring to negative stress, called distress (Parker and Ragsdale 2015).…”

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Clarifying the Interrelations of Residents’ Perceived Tourism-Related Stress, Stressors, and Impacts

Jordan

Lesar

Spencer

2019

Journal of Travel Research

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While stress has recently been documented as an adverse impact of tourism, it has not been examined alongside traditional tourism impacts to determine their similarities and differences. To clarify the interrelations of these phenomena, we explored whether tourism-related stressors were similar to well-known tourism impacts, and whether perceived tourism impacts increased the likelihood of experiencing tourism-related stress. Residents of O’ahu, Hawai’i, were asked how much tourism impacted them on 36 variables, whether tourism caused them stress, and if so, how. Study findings reveal that tourism-related stressors often correspond with what have been traditionally considered tourism impacts. Moreover, only five of the tourism impact variables predicted the experience of tourism-related stress, and of these only one was a frequently cited stressor. Connecting impacts to stressors expands the possibility that certain tourism impacts could have consequences that go beyond mere opinions and attitudes, as stress has many health and wellness consequences.

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Effects of Distress and Eustress on Changes in Fatigue from Waking to Working

Abstract: These results contribute to understanding changes in employees' fatigue and suggest that the differential effects of distress and eustress experiences at work may be important to consider in fatigue management interventions.

Cited by 28 publications

References 46 publications

Is workplace bullying always perceived harmful? The cognitive appraisal theory of stress perspective

Is workplace bullying always perceived harmful? The cognitive appraisal theory of stress perspective

The Adolescent Distress-Eustress Scale: Development and Validation

Clarifying the Interrelations of Residents’ Perceived Tourism-Related Stress, Stressors, and Impacts

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