The role of negative affectivity in the stress process: Tests of alternative models

Abstract. Positive affectivity (PA) and negative affectivity (NA) are basic traits that affect work-related perceptions and behaviors and should be considered in any assessment of these variables. A quite common method to assess healthy or unhealthy types of work-related perceptions and behaviors is the questionnaire on Work-Related Coping Behavior and Experience Patterns (WCEP). However, the association of PA and NA with WCEP remained unclear. In a sample of teachers, physiotherapists, and teacher students ( N = 745; Mage = 35.07, SD = 12.49; 78% females), we aimed to identify the relevance of these basic traits. After controlling for age, gender, and type of occupation, we found main effects of PA and NA, with the specific combination of PA and NA being decisive for predicting the assignment to a WCEP type. The results highlight the need to include PA and NA in future assessments with the WCEP questionnaire.

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Psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers: the role of supervisor trustworthiness and negative affectivity

Journal of Management & Organization ◽

10.1017/jmo.2020.43 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Émilie Lapointe ◽

Christian Vandenberghe

Keyword(s):

Psychological Contract ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Voluntary Turnover ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Psychological Contract Breach ◽

Contract Breach ◽

Indirect Relationship ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article looks at the relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover among newcomers, using supervisor trustworthiness as a mediator and negative affectivity as a moderator. Relying on data from 243 newcomers, psychological contract breach was found to be negatively related to the three dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness, i.e., ability, benevolence, and integrity. Supervisor integrity further mediated a positive relationship between psychological contract breach and voluntary turnover measured 8 months later. Psychological contract breach interacted with negative affectivity such that it was less negatively related to dimensions of supervisor trustworthiness at high levels of negative affectivity. The indirect relationship of psychological contract breach to voluntary turnover as mediated by supervisor integrity was also weaker at high levels of negative affectivity. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.

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Beyond Fundamental Dimensions of Mood in Predicting Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation in Victims of Interpersonal Violence: Examining the Role of Dispositional Optimism in Chinese Females With and Without Experience of Victimization

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211030951 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110309

Author(s):

Yifeng Du ◽

Olivia D. Chang ◽

Mingqi Li ◽

Misu Kwon

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Prediction Model ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Dispositional Optimism ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Regression Analyses

The present study tested a prediction model involving affectivity and dispositional optimism as predictors of suicide risk (i.e., depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation) in young adult Chinese females with and without prior interpersonal violence (IPV) victimization (294 nonvictimized and 94 victimized females). Results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that negative affectivity was a significant predictor of both depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation for Chinese females, regardless of IPV victimization. Beyond affectivity, dispositional optimism was found to further add to the prediction model of depressive symptoms in both groups, but only for suicidal ideation in the IPV victimized group.

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Puppet or Puppeteer? The Role of Resource Control in the Occupational Stress Process

Research in Occupational Stress and Well-being - Power, Politics, and Political Skill in Job Stress ◽

10.1108/s1479-355520170000015006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 137-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paul E. Spector

Keyword(s):

Occupational Stress ◽

Resource Control ◽

Stress Process

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Grading Modal Judgement

Mind ◽

10.1093/mind/fzz028 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 129 (515) ◽

pp. 769-807

Author(s):

Nate Charlow

Keyword(s):

Epistemic Modality ◽

New Model ◽

Alternative Models ◽

Modal Operators ◽

Modal Claim ◽

Plausible Model ◽

Normative Epistemology

Abstract This paper proposes a new model of graded modal judgement. It begins by problematizing the phenomenon: given plausible constraints on the logic of epistemic modality, it is impossible to model graded attitudes toward modal claims as judgements of probability targeting epistemically modal propositions. This paper considers two alternative models, on which modal operators are non-proposition-forming: (1) Moss (2015), in which graded attitudes toward modal claims are represented as judgements of probability targeting a ‘proxy’ proposition, belief in which would underwrite belief in the modal claim; (2) a model on which graded attitudes toward modal claims are represented as judgements of credence taking as their objects (non-propositional) modal representations (rather than proxy propositions). The second model, like Moss’s model, is shown to be semantically and mathematically tractable. The second model, however, can be straightforwardly integrated into a plausible model of the role of graded attitudes toward modal claims in cognition and normative epistemology.

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The role of negative affectivity in the relationships between pay satisfaction, affective and continuance commitment and voluntary turnover: A moderated mediation model

Human Relations ◽

10.1177/0018726713516377 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 67 (7) ◽

pp. 821-848 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Alexandra Panaccio ◽

Christian Vandenberghe ◽

Ahmed K Ben Ayed

Keyword(s):

Negative Affectivity ◽

Voluntary Turnover ◽

Moderated Mediation ◽

Pay Satisfaction ◽

Mediation Model ◽

Continuance Commitment ◽

Moderated Mediation Model

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A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Study of the Role of Parental Self-Criticism, Dependency, Depression, and Parenting Stress in the Development of Child Negative Affectivity

Self and Identity ◽

10.1080/15298868.2013.873076 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 491-511 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Sara Casalin ◽

Patrick Luyten ◽

Avi Besser ◽

Sofie Wouters ◽

Nicole Vliegen

Keyword(s):

Parenting Stress ◽

Negative Affectivity

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Expatriate partners’ personality and its influence on acculturation into a new cultural context: Examining the role of dispositional affectivity

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management ◽

10.1177/14705958211057364 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147059582110573

Author(s):

Sebastian Stoermer ◽

Jan Selmer ◽

Jakob Lauring

Keyword(s):

Cultural Context ◽

Local Community ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Vital Role ◽

Positive Affectivity ◽

Full Support ◽

Community Embeddedness ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive And Negative Affectivity

Despite the vital role that trailing partners play for successful expatriation, we still know very little about what actually causes partners to thrive and integrate effectively into the new cultural context. However, as indications have emerged that the personality of partners could be key to a favorable acculturation trajectory, we set out to explore this further. More specifically, we assess the role of expatriate partners’ dispositional affectivity, that is, positive and negative affectivity. We examine this in relation to internal acculturation (in the form of interaction and general adjustment) and external acculturation (in the form of local community embeddedness and intentions to stay or to return home). Drawing on the data of 123 trailing partners, full support was found for three out of four hypotheses regarding the effects of positive affectivity. Further, a marginally significant negative association was identified for the relationship between positive affectivity and repatriation intentions. For negative affectivity, two hypotheses were met. Interestingly, no significant influence of negative affectivity on community embeddedness was found. The association between negative affectivity and interaction adjustment was marginally significant indicating some tentative support. In sum, this study corroborates that dispositional affectivity is an overall important concept to explain trailing partners’ acculturation. However, the role of positive and negative affectivity seems to vary along the different proxies of internal and external acculturation.

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The Role of Social Desirability, Negative Affectivity, and Female Reproductive System Symptoms in Differences in Reporting Symptoms by Men and Women

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1999.85.1.54 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 54-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Charles L. Sheridan ◽

Moira A. Mulhern ◽

Dawn Martin

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Reproductive System ◽

Emotional Health ◽

Negative Affectivity ◽

Female Reproductive System ◽

Men And Women ◽

Emotional Component ◽

Almost All

52 women and 38 men completed the Inventory of Health Status, Version 2, a measure of somatic health, and the Cornell Medical Index which provided separate scores for somatic and emotional health. The Personal Style Inventory was given, from which measures of Social Desirability and Negative Affectivity were utilized. Multiple regressions were done separately with scores on the Inventory of Health Status and the Cornell Emotional component, and scores on Social Desirability, Negative Affectivity, and sex as predictors. Scores on Social Desirability and Negative Affectivity were forced into the equation first. For the Inventory of Health Status, sex alone contributed significantly to the final equation. For scores on the Cornell Index's emotional component both sex and scores on negative affectivity had significant beta weights. Analysis of items from the Inventory of Health Status was done to examine the role of symptoms pertaining to women's reproductive system, and almost all the items that differed by sex were either clearly or possibly specific female reproductive items, e.g., “Abnormal menstruation.” Similar analyses were not possible for the organic component of the Cornell Index, which has different items for reproductive systems of men and women. The complexity of the female reproductive system may play a central role in sex differences in symptom reporting and perhaps of emotional distress, but other interpretations are discussed.

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