Divergent effects of job control on coping with work stressors: the key role of self-efficacy

Article Abstract:

This study identifies job self-efficacy as a moderating variable that may determine whether job control contributes positively or negative to coping with work stressors. Data from two samples (health professionals and an occupationally diverse group) demonstrated similar interactions between demands, control, and self-efficacy predicting blood pressure. These results may reconcile the previous inconsistent and largely method-bound support for Karasek's job demands - control model and suggest that efforts to improve job self-efficacy may be as important to reducing the cardiovascular consequences of job stress as efforts to enhance control. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Research, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Industrial psychology, Adjustment (Psychology), Self-efficacy (Psychology), Self efficacy, Industrial-organizational psychology

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A meta-analytic test of the challenge stressor-hindrance stressor framework: An explanation for inconsistent relationships among stressors and performance

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A meta-analytical test of a two-dimensional work stressor framework with respect to stressors' relationships with strains, motivation, and performance is reported. Hindrance stressors have a negative direct and indirect effect on performance through strains and motivation whereas challenge stressors have a positive direct effect on performance and also offset indirect effects on performance through strains and motivation.

Motivational Techniques, Evaluation, Employee motivation

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Does rudeness really matter? The effects of rudeness on task performance and helpfulness

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A study assessed the effect of impoliteness on performance and helpfulness. Results revealed that rude behavior lowered performance levels and also decreased attitude of helpfulness.

Courtesy, Helping behavior, Helping behaviour, Report

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