The role of negative affectivity in understanding relations between self-reports of stressors and strains: a comment on the applied psychology literature

Article Abstract:

On the basis of a brief review of the health, organizational, and personality psychology literatures supportive of the expectation that observed relations between self-reports of stressors and strains are influenced by the mood-dispositional dimension negative effectivity (NA), reanalyses of four data sets were conducted. The results of these reanalyses, contrary to the assertions of several authors in the applied psychology literature, offered further support for the hypothesized "nuisance" properties of NA in studies involving relations between self-reports of stressors and strain. A discussion of how NA and other mood-dispositional dimensions may be of interest to investigators concerned with relations between self-reports of any condition of employment and any affective state of workers is presented. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Influence, Stress (Psychology), Attitudes, Self-evaluation, Self evaluation, Mood (Psychology), Attitude (Psychology)

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Behavioral intentions as predictors of job attitudes: the role of economic choice

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Hypotheses regarding behavioral intentions as antecedents of job attitudes were tested longitudinally with a sample of 126 retail salespeople. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that workers' intentions to leave at organizational entry predicted subsequent job satisfaction on 19 of 21 satisfaction scales. In general, these relationships were moderated by perceived choice, construed here as the absence of externally imposed financial requirements or economic pressures to stay on the job. Consistent with cognitive dissonance theory, the intent-to-leave-job-satisfaction relationships were stronger when economic choice was higher (i.e., financial requirements were lower). The practical and theoretical implications of these findings for existing models of organizational behavior are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Consumer preferences, Job satisfaction, Workers, Employee attitudes

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Should negative affectivity remain an unmeasured variable in the study of job stress?

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We predicted that the dispositional construct negative affectivity (NA) would be related to self-report measures of job stress and job strain and that observed relationships between these stress and strain measures would be inflated considerably by NA. Results of a study of 497 managers and professionals were largely consistent with those expectations. Thus, we discuss implications for NA as both a methodological nuisance and a substantive cause of stressful work events, and conclude that NA should no longer remain an unmeasured variable in the study of job stress. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Job stress, Work, Work (Labor), Psychology, Psychology, Applied, Applied psychology

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