The impact of health habits and life‐style on the stressor—strain relationship: An evaluation of three industries

Abstract

Three industry populations representing a total of 58 organizations and more than 3000 individuals were surveyed to assess the influence of life‐style and health habits on stress outcomes. Results suggest a strong direct relationship between life‐style and health habits and stress outcomes. Contrary to hypotheses, life‐style and health habits did not consistently moderate, or ‘buffer’, the stressor‐strain linkage.

Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers

“…These findings add to the accumulating evidence that physical activity and exercise may not always operate as a means of effectively coping with stress and maintaining good health (e.g. Kabanoff & O'Brien, 1986;Long & Flood, 1996;Steffy, Jones, & Wiggins Noe, 1990;Trenberth et al, 1999). Leisure is a much broader concept than just physical exercise, and as shown in the present study, other types of leisure including non-physical types of leisure may in fact provide individuals with an opportunity to deal effectively with stress and help maintain greater physical and mental health.…”

Cross-cultural differences in occupational stress among British and German managers

“…Of 18 interactions tested only one was significant. Hence individualized adaptive responses (0peration:ilized as the measures 'type-A behaviour', 'coping' and 'locus of control') had failed to demonstrate any buffering Downloaded by [University North Carolina -Chapel Hill] at 12:47 04 February 2015 characteristics against the potentially adverse effects of work-related sources of stress on job satisfaction or health (Steffy et al 1990), with the exception of copirq (for the German sample only) which, although not directly predictive ofjob satisfaction, did moderate the relationship between job-related pressure and job satisfaction (F(3,128) = 2.06, ~( 0 . 0 4 ) .…”

Is occupational stress associated with work engagement ?

“…Thus, the work should gives pleasure in order to improve quality of life. The employee may have his health protected to engage in appropriate coping behaviors that mitigate the impact of psychological and somatic stress [11] .The use of healthy coping strategies increases the frequency and intensity of positive emotional states, such as peace, hope and well-being [8] . Occupational stress has caused serious health risks to the individual, and also resulted in a reduce performance in work [10] .…”