Stressors and burnout: The role of employee assistance programs and self-efficacy

Yu, Mi; Lin, Chiu-Chuan; Hsu, San-Yuan

doi:10.2224/sbp.2009.37.3.365

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“…From the viewpoint of organizational intervention, stress management programs such as yoga, meditation, counseling, time management and employee assistance programmes can help to improve employees' physical and mental health (e.g. Blumenthal et al 2005; Daubenmier et al 2007; Kirk & Brown, 2003; Yu, Lin, & Hsu, 2009). Organizations will gain a competitive advantage if they make better use of their human resources (Parker & Sprigg, 1999).…”

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Mediating effects of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between job demand–control model and mental health

Huang

Chen

et al. 2011

Stress and Health

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This study attempted to investigate the role of emotional exhaustion as a mediator on the relationship between job demands-control (JDC) model and mental health. Three-wave data from 297 employees were collected. The results showed that job demands were positively related to emotional exhaustion, and increasing job demands will increase the level of emotional exhaustion. Job control was negatively associated with emotional exhaustion; therefore, increasing job control will decrease the level of emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion was negatively related to mental health. Emotional exhaustion fully mediated the relationship between job demands and mental health, and partially mediated the positive relationship between job control and mental health. In addition, job control was positively associated with mental health directly. The remarkable finding of the present study was that emotional exhaustion served as the key mediator between the JDC model and mental health. Theoretical and managerial implications and limitations were discussed.

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Mediating effects of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between job demand–control model and mental health

Huang

Chen

et al. 2011

Stress and Health

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“…Within the job demandcontrol model, job demands and job control are associated with negative health and psychological outcomes ( Karasek, 1979 ); when psychological demand is high and decision latitude is low, employees perceive more work stress ( Ouweneel, Taris, Van Zolingen, & Schreurs, 2009 ). Additionally, due to the characteristics of production in the technology industry (e.g., short product life cycles, technical complications, and substantial technological changes), lower level employees in the technology industry are typically required to work overtime and frequently experience high work stress, which damages their health ( Yeh & Hu, 2009 ;Yu, Lin, & Hsu, 2009 ).…”

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Employee Problems and Their Consequences in the Technology Industry: Evidence from Surveys and Counseling Records

2014

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To support employees' work and health, organizations should help employees cope with common problems. Previous studies have focused primarily on work-related problems across multiple industries rather than on evaluating industry-specific issues. Here, two approaches identified common work and non-work employee problems in the technology industry with the strongest correlations with psychosomatic health and life satisfaction. Study 1 used questionnaires to identify the problems that were perceived as the most frequent by lower-level employees (N = 355) working in the technology industry. Study 2 evaluated employees' coping behaviors by analyzing (with permission) counseling records collected from an employee assistance service company (N = 276). Employees reported a variety of problems; work problems were the only problems (of the top 5 problems) reported in both studies. Several problems emerged in the counseling records (e.g., legal issues, career development, family and marriage problems, and emotional problems) but not in the surveys. Future research should apply these observations to develop scales for measuring employee stressors.

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“…The level of perceived job stress due to workload was assessed by using the 5-item Workload Subscale of the Job Stress Questionnaire [ 66 ], which has been used in some Chinese populations [ 67 ]. The items were rated on a seven-point Likert scale from “never” (1) to “always” (7).…”

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The Majority of the Migrant Factory Workers of the Light Industry in Shenzhen, China May Be Physically Inactive

Liu

Lau³

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PLoS ONE

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Physical inactivity is a strong risk factor of non-communicable diseases (NCD). In China, there are 250 million migrant factory workers, who are susceptible to physical inactivity and hence NCD because of work nature and setting. With random stratified sampling, 807 such workers of the light industry were recruited in Shenzhen, China and completed a self-administered questionnaire with informed consent. The prevalence of inadequate physical activity (defined according to the World Health Organization’s recommendation on level of moderate/vigorous physical activity) was 95.4%. Of all participants, 69.1% showed “a very low level of physical activity” (VLLPA), defined as ≤30 minutes of weekly moderate/vigorous physical activity, which was significantly associated with female sex (Odds ratio [OR]=1.65), lower education level (OR=0.10 to 0.33, primary education as the reference group) and married status (OR=0.63, single status as the reference group). Adjusted for these factors, perceived social support (Adjusted OR=0.87) was negatively associated with VLLPA, while job stress due to workload, which was significant in the univariate analysis (OR=0.98), became non-significant (p=0.184). Significant interaction between perceived social support and perceived job stress onto VLLPA was found (p=0.044), implying that the negative association between job stress and VLLPA, which might reflect a potential response to cope with stress by performing exercises, was stronger among those with weaker social support. The extremely low level of physical activity rings an alarm, as it implies high risk of NCD, and as there are no existing programs promoting physical activity in this group. Interventions need to take into account social support, potential coping to job stress, and structural factors of the factory setting, while involving factories’ management.

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Stressors and burnout: The role of employee assistance programs and self-efficacy

Cited by 18 publications

References 36 publications

Mediating effects of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between job demand–control model and mental health

Mediating effects of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between job demand–control model and mental health

Employee Problems and Their Consequences in the Technology Industry: Evidence from Surveys and Counseling Records

The Majority of the Migrant Factory Workers of the Light Industry in Shenzhen, China May Be Physically Inactive

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