Personality and coping as moderators of work stress processes: Models, methods and measures

Une étude sur le rôle modérateur des traits de personnalité sur la relation entre les conditions de l’organisation du travail et la détresse psychologique

“…Au Canada, 43 % des travailleurs et travailleuses ont été victimes d'au moins un épisode de détresse psychologique et près de 19 % ont vécu des épisodes multiples entre 1994(Marchand et al, 2005a. Au Québec, la proportion a augmenté de 17 % à 19 % au cours de la décennie (Marchand et al, 2003 pour l'ensemble de la population et de manière plus significative pour certains groupes professionnels (cols blancs et cols bleus masculins non qualifiés, cols bleus semi-qualifiés).…”

Predicting Occupational Strain and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Stress, Coping, Personality, and Affectivity Variables

“…Type A individuals, being more competitive, may see a passive, low pressured environment as a constraint, while Type B individuals may perceive it as an opportunity (Beehr & Schuler, 1982). Other characteristics of the individual identified as influencing responses to stress include locus of control (Beehr & Schuler, 1982), attitudes, needs, values, and ability (Sutherland & Cooper, 1988), and hardiness (Parkes, 1994). In keeping with the emphasis placed on replication in this research programme, and to explore the link between job satisfaction, occupational strain, and personality factors more thoroughly, a fourth study was designed wherein a global measure of personality was included with the variables used in Study 3.…”

Work- and family-related variables, work–family conflict and women's well-being: some observations

“…This is deemed necessary because the links between work, family and well-being are complex and researchers need to specify multiple underlying pathways or processes by which work-family conflict may lead to health impairment. This is so because stress processes are not invariant; both personality and environmental factors influence the relationships between stress and outcomes (see Parkes, 1994). For example, Carlson (1999) showed that individual variables (Type A behaviour and negative affectivity) explained significant additional variance beyond those attributed by the role variables.…”