Occupational Stress, Social Support, Job Control, and Psychological Well-Being

Daniels, Kevin; Guppy, Andrew

doi:10.1177/001872679404701205

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“…Daniels & Guppy, 1994;Lu et al, 2000), external WLC was related to reporting of a greater amount of stress at work. WLC had a significant negative correlation with job satisfaction and a significant positive correlation with health symptoms, indicating that external WLC was associated with lower job satisfaction and more health symptoms.…”

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“…Also, factors apart from WLC, e.g. coping strategies and social support, could influence the stress-health relationship either directly or indirectly (Bellman, Forster, Still & Cooper, 2003;Daniels & Guppy, 1994;Greenglass, 1993). Yet another limitation of the study is its cross-sectional design, which does not allow causal conclusions to be drawn on the basis of the results.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…individuals' well-being and job satisfaction (Lu, Kao, Cooper & Spector, 2000;Kirkcaldy, Shephard & Furnham, 2002). In studies concerning occupational stress there has been an increasing interest in the potential role of generalized control beliefs (Daniels & Guppy, 1994). Individuals who believe they themselves can control the reinforcements through their behavior are regarded as having internal locus of control, whereas individuals who have external locus of control believe that external forces such as luck and fate control the reinforcements of their behavior (Rotter, 1966).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…WLCS has been used in several studies concerning e.g. different performance dimensions (Blau, 1993), unemployment (Cvetanovski & Jex, 1994), stress and well-being (Daniels & Guppy, 1994;Lu et al, 2000;Spector & O'Connell, 1994) and selection interviews (Silvester, AndersonGough, Anderson, & Mohamed, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, stressors seem to have less effect on well-being for individuals who have internal locus of control (Daniels & Guppy, 1994;Lu et al, 2000). Several studies have also revealed that internal WLC is positively related to different organizational outcomes such as motivation, job performance, job satisfaction, perception of organizational climate and organizational commitment (Blau, 1993;Furnham & Drakeley, 1993;Lu et al, 2000;Orpen, 1992;Ross, 1991).…”

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Work locus of control and its relationship to health and job satisfaction from a gender perspective

Muhonen

Torkelson

2004

Stress and Health

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SummaryWith its focus on gender, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of work locus of control (WLC) for job satisfaction and health in the context of occupational stress. Data were collected from 281 women and men at both managerial and non-managerial level in a Swedish telecom company. As hypothesized, external WLC was positively related to stressors and health symptoms, whereas it was negatively related to job satisfaction. These results applied for both women and men. Even though ANOVAS did not show a gender difference in WLC, the results of the hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that WLC was a significant predictor of both health symptoms and job satisfaction, but only for women. Besides these main effects WLC also acted as a moderator in the stress-health relationship for women. This indicates that separate analyses for women and men are needed in order to investigate potential gender differences that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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confidence: 96%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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The moderating role of task characteristics in determining responses to a stressful work simulation

Jimmieson

Terry

1999

J. Organiz. Behav.

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SummaryTwo experimental studies were conducted to examine whether the stress-buering eects of behavioral control on work task responses varied as a function of procedural information. Study 1 manipulated low and high levels of task demands, behavioral control, and procedural information for 128 introductory psychology students completing an in-basket activity. ANOVA procedures revealed a signi®cant three-way interaction among these variables in the prediction of subjective task performance and task satisfaction. It was found that procedural information buered the negative eects of task demands on ratings of performance and satisfaction only under conditions of low behavioral control. This pattern of results suggests that procedural information may have a compensatory eect when the work environment is characterized by a combination of high task demands and low behavioral control. Study 2 (N 256) utilized simple and complex versions of the in-basket activity to examine the extent to which the interactive relationship among task demands, behavioral control, and procedural information varied as a function of task complexity. There was further support for the stress-buering role of procedural information on work task responses under conditions of low behavioral control. This eect was, however, only present when the in-basket activity was characterized by high task complexity, suggesting that the interactive relationship among these variables may depend on the type of tasks performed at work.

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The moderating role of task characteristics in determining responses to a stressful work simulation

Jimmieson¹,

Terry²

1999

J. Organiz. Behav.

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Two experimental studies were conducted to examine whether the stress-buffering effects of behavioral control on work task responses varied as a function of procedural information. Study 1 manipulated low and high levels of task demands, behavioral control, and procedural information for 128 introductory psychology students completing an in-basket activity. ANOVA procedures revealed a significant three-way interaction among these variables in the prediction of subjective task performance and task satisfaction. It was found that procedural information buffered the negative effects of task demands on ratings of performance and satisfaction only under conditions of low behavioral control. This pattern of results suggests that procedural information may have a compensatory effect when the work environment is characterized by a combination of high task demands and low behavioral control. Study 2 (N. 256) utilized simple and complex versions of the in-basket activity to examine the extent to which the interactive relationship among task demands, behavioral control, and procedural information varied as a function of task complexity. There was further support for the stress-buffering role of procedural information on work task responses under conditions of low behavioral control. This effect was, however, only present when the in-basket activity was characterized by high task complexity, suggesting that the interactive relationship among these variables may depend on the type of tasks performed at work.

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Occupational Stress, Social Support, Job Control, and Psychological Well-Being

Cited by 227 publications

References 58 publications

Work locus of control and its relationship to health and job satisfaction from a gender perspective

Work locus of control and its relationship to health and job satisfaction from a gender perspective

The moderating role of task characteristics in determining responses to a stressful work simulation

The moderating role of task characteristics in determining responses to a stressful work simulation

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