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

PurposeThis study aimed to (1) analyze whether the perceived organizational support (POS) was a significant predictor of performance and stress and (2) explore the mediating role of engagement in these relations.Design/methodology/approachTo test the hypotheses, the authors collected data with 200 working adults in a mandatory quarantine due to COVID-19 pandemic crisis.FindingsThe results showed that the POS contributed to increase engagement, and consequently, job performance. These relations also proved to be significant for stress, because when the POS increased, the work engagement also increased, and as a result decreased occupational stress.Research limitations/implicationsThis study relied on a cross-sectional design. Therefore, future research should consider a daily design to replicate this study and analyze daily fluctuations. Overall, the authors can conclude that work engagement is an affective process through which POS decreases stress and increases performance.Originality/valueThis study tests the mediating effect of work engagement on the link between POS, stress and performance, and its theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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

Journal of Organizational Behavior ◽

10.1002/job.4030160705 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (S1) ◽

pp. 647-668 ◽

Cited By ~ 102

Author(s):

Penny Moyle

Keyword(s):

Negative Affectivity ◽

Stress Process ◽

Alternative Models

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Well Being and Occupational Stress of Women Teachers of Primary Schools

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0203.036 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Dr. Utpal Kalita

Keyword(s):

Elementary School Teachers ◽

Occupational Stress ◽

Primary Schools ◽

High Stress ◽

Well Being ◽

Women Teachers ◽

School Teachers ◽

Stress Scale ◽

High Stress Level

The elementary school teachers and especially women teachers are facing new challenges and need to be supported by the educational administrators and the state. In order to strengthen the role of women teachers, there is needed to look at well-being and occupation stress of women teachers‟. The present paper is justified to study the well being and occupational stress of women teachers of primary schools. For this, Well Being Scale and Occupational Stress Scale for are used as tools of data collection. Main findings of this study are: (i) very few women teachers fall in low well being level category while majority of the women teachers fall in the category of high well being, (ii) few women teachers fall in high stress level category while majority of the women teachers fall in the category of average as well as less stress well being category and (iii) there exists significant relationship between well being and occupational stress of women teachers of primary schools.

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Investigating Occupational Stress of Disaster and Emergency Medical Management Center 115 and the Role of Demographic Variables in Kermanshah, Iran

10.21203/rs.3.rs-17181/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Reza Pourmirza Kalhori ◽

Parvin Abdi Gheshlaghi ◽

Razie Toghroli ◽

Vahid Hatami Garosi ◽

Jaffar Abbas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Occupational Stress ◽

Stress Level ◽

Medical Management ◽

Work Experience ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Medical Emergency ◽

Work Place ◽

Significance Level ◽

Emergency Medical

Abstract Background: The first and one of the most important chains of providing care to patients is pre-hospital emergency medical services. Personnel employed in this sector are at risk of occupational stress due to the nature of their job which can affect their health and quality of services provided to patients. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the occupational stress of the personnel of disaster and emergency medical management center 115 and the role of demographic variables in 2019.Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study. 200 medical emergency personnel of Kermanshah province were selected through stratified sampling and according to inclusion criteria. A two-part questionnaire including demographic information and HSE standard questionnaire were used for collecting data. Finally, descriptive and inferential statistics (t-test and one-way ANOVA) were used for data analysis. Significance level was considered P<0.05. Results: The mean score of total occupational stress was 3.41±0.26. The highest and the lowest stress levels related to the role dimensions was calculated (4.34±0.35) and changes (2.72±0.86). There was a significant relationship between stress level with age, marital status, educational level, type of base of work place and hours of work per month, while there was no relationship between type of employment and work experience with stress level. Conclusion: Emergency medical personnel experience a high level of occupational stress. Senior managers can use the results of similar studies to think measures to reduce the experience of employees' stress.

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