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Occupational stressor
About: Occupational stressor is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 68 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2538 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the linkage between employees' attitudes towards organizational change and two of the most significant constructs in organizational behaviour; occupational stress and organizational commitment and found negative correlations between occupational stressors and attitudes to change indicating that highly stressed individuals demonstrate decreased commitment and increased reluctance to accept organizational change interventions.
Abstract: Occupational stress and organizational change are now widely accepted as two major issues in organizational life The current study explores the linkage between employees' attitudes towards organizational change and two of the most significant constructs in organizational behaviour; occupational stress and organizational commitment A total of 292 participants completed ASSET, a new Organizational Screening Tool, which, amongst other things, measures workplace stress and organizational commitment and a measure assessing attitudes towards organizational change The results were in the expected direction showing negative correlations between occupational stressors and attitudes to change indicating that highly stressed individuals demonstrate decreased commitment and increased reluctance to accept organizational change interventions The most significant impact on attitudes to change was coming from bad work relationships emphasizing the importance of that occupational stressor on employees' attitudes towards change The results did not support the role of organizational commitment as a moderator in the relationship between occupational stress and attitudes to change
532 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on a widespread occupational stressor: emotional labour (EL), which refers to the act of managing emotions and emotional expressions in order to be consistent with organizational "display rules", defined as the organizationally required emotions during interpersonal service transactions, and found that high trait El individuals experience lower levels of burnout and somatic complaints, and this effect was mediated by the choice of emotional labour strategies.
433 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the role of time in three types of occupational stressor-strain effects was examined through a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies from 68 samples, and the extent to which correlations between stressors and strains when both are measured at the same time point (i.e. synchronous effects) change with the passage of time.
Abstract: Through a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies from 68 samples, this study examines the role of time in three types of occupational stressor-strain effects. First, this study reviews the extent to which correlations between stressors and strains when both are measured at the same time point (i.e. synchronous effects) change with the passage of time. Second, this review examines the extent to which stressors predict increases in strain (i.e. lagged effects) and whether these effects vary across different time lags. Third, this paper considers the extent to which strains predict increases in stressors (i.e. reverse causation effects), and whether these effects vary across different time lags. Results indicate that synchronous effects tend to increase over time, suggesting that the effects of chronic stressors build up through cumulative exposure. Lagged effects were generally small but their magnitude increased over time for about three years before declining, whereas the average size of reverse causation ...
307 citations
TL;DR: Extraversion had a direct, positive effect on physical and psychological strain, and there was preliminary support for a moderating role of Conscientiousness in the perceived stressor-strain relationship.
Abstract: The role of the Big Five traits in the occupational stressor-strain relationship was investigated among 211 managers. Direct, mediated, and moderated effect models were used to investigate whether the Big Five affect strain directly (independently of stress), indirectly (via stress and coping), or interactively with stress. Personality, stress, coping, and strain variables were measured and analyzed with path analysis and hierarchical regression. The Neuroticism-physical strain relationship was partially mediated by perceived role conflict and substance use, and the Neuroticism-psychological strain relationship was mediated by perceived stress. Extraversion had a direct, positive effect on physical and psychological strain, and there was preliminary support for a moderating role of Conscientiousness in the perceived stressor-strain relationship. Agreeableness and Openness were unrelated to strain.
214 citations
TL;DR: The findings suggest that firefighter and paramedic job stress is very complicated and multi-faceted and the SOOS instrument appears to have adequate reliability and concurrent validity.
Abstract: Introduction/Objective:This paper reports the results of an initial effort to develop and test measure of the various sources of job-related stress in firefighter and paramedic emergenc service workers.Methods:A 57-item paper and pencil measure of occupational stressor in firefighter/Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) and firefighter/paramedics was developed and administered by anonymous mail survey.Results:More than 2,000 (50% rate of return) emergency service workers comple and returned the surveys. The responses of 1,730 firefighter/EMTs and 253 firefighter/paramedics were very similar in terms of the degree to which job stressors were bothersome. A factor analysis of replies yielded 14 statistically independent “Occupational Stressor” factors which together accounted for 66.3% of the instrument's variance. These Sources of Occupational Stress (SOOS) factor scale scores essentially did not correlate with a measure the social desirability test-taking bias. Finall SOOS factors were identified that correlated with job satisfaction and work-related morale of the respondents. Conflict with administration was the job stressor factor that most strongly correlated with reports of low job satisfaction and poor work morale in both study groups.Conclusion:The findings suggest that firefighter and paramedic job stress is very complicated and multi-faceted. Based on this preliminary investigation, the SOOS instrument appears to have adequate reliability and concurrent validity.
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