Praise and recognition from supervisors buffers employee psychological strain: A two-sample investigation with tourism workers

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Adele J. Bergin ◽  
Michelle K. Tucker ◽  
Nerina L. Jimmieson
Keyword(s):  
Sick Leave ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Psychological Strain ◽  
Organizational Resource ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Role Demands ◽  
New Evidence

BACKGROUND: Focusing on employees with psychological strain, this research draws on Frederickson’s ‘undoing hypothesis’ to examine praise and recognition from one’s supervisor as an organizational resource. OBJECTIVE: A model is tested in which psychological strain is a mediator in the positive relationship between role demands and employees’ intentions to take sick leave and seek medical advice, and positions supervisor praise and recognition as a buffer of psychological strain on such intentions. METHODS: The model was tested using two Australian samples in the tourism sector, consisting of motel workers (n = 104) and museum workers (n = 168). RESULTS: For museum workers, but not motel workers, there was a positive indirect effect of each role demand on sick leave intentions through psychological strain that weakened as a function of supervisor praise and recognition. The proposed moderated mediated model was supported for both samples in regards to intentions to seek medical advice. CONCLUSIONS: This research contributes new evidence regarding the antecedents of employees’ intentions to take sick leave and seek medical advice for work stress-related problems. It also contributes to the limited evidence regarding supervisor praise and recognition as a protective factor for employees exhibiting the symptoms of psychological strain.

The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing

1980 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Atack ◽  
Fred Bateman ◽  
Thomas Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Regional Differences ◽  
Census Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Steam Engine ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Steam Power ◽  
Simulation Techniques ◽  
Quantitative Estimates ◽  
Historical Pattern ◽  
New Evidence

In spite of the importance accorded the steam engine during nineteenth-century industrialization, little is known about its rate of diffusion and the determinants thereof in the United States. The primary purpose of this paper is to enhance our knowledge about the spread of this technology. New evidence on steam power use in 1820, 1850, and 1860, combined with published census data from 1870, permits quantitative estimates of the regional variations in timing, pace, and extent of usage before 1900. Second, we advance reasonable conjectures for the regional differences that appear. Although lack of evidence precludes a definitive delineation of causality, with simulation techniques we are able to use the limited evidence available on costs to reconcile, albeit imperfectly, the historical pattern with economic-theoretic predictions regarding the process of innovation.

scholarly journals Work Stress and its Impact on Employees’ Psychological Strain

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Nurul Akma Ahmad ◽  
Siti Zaleha Abdul Rasid ◽  
Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool ◽  
Nurul Amyra Mat Isa
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Psychological Strain

scholarly journals Supervisors’ Ability to Manage Their Own Emotions Influences the Effectiveness of Their Support-Giving

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle K. Tucker ◽  
Nerina L. Jimmieson
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Psychological Strain ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
Emotional Demands

Abstract. Although supervisor support is generally considered a job resource that buffers the negative consequences of job demands, reverse-buffering effects have been found. It was proposed that supervisor support would be stress buffering when supervisors were skilled in emotion management and stress exacerbating when supervisors were low in emotion management. A sample of 210 US employees found three-way interactions on psychological strain, job burnout, and two stress-related intentions. Supportive supervisors high in emotion management buffered high emotional demands on psychological strain and medical advice intentions, but not burnout or turnover intentions. The stress-exacerbating hypothesis was not supported. Instead, employees with highly supportive supervisors low in emotion management reported low strain at low emotional demands. However, this benefit was diminished at high emotional demands.

Resisting Restrictive Feminine Molds and Promoting Embodied Well-Being Among Breast Cancer Survivors

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Lianne Trachtenberg
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Breast Cancer Survivors ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Young Breast Cancer ◽  
Role Demands

This chapter explores the resistance to restrictive feminine molds as a protective factor that facilitates positive embodiment among young breast cancer survivors. The chapter reviews the empirical evidence on cancer survivors’ gendered lived experience in the body and the role of restrictive feminine molds on cultivating experiences of (dis)embodiment. A novel mixed-method research program is discussed that examined whether the internalization of values that counteract feminine molds among breast cancer survivors, utilizing the Experience of Embodiment Scale, predicted embodied well-being. The program also considered women`s reflections about their values and beliefs, cultural heteronormative ideas of attractiveness, and role demands on women`s connection to their post–medically treated bodies. The chapter concludes with suggested intervention strategies that aim at fostering resistance to restrictive feminine molds and, through that, enhancing the quality of embodied lives among women entering the survivorship stage of their breast cancer journey.

Brain activation patterns in major depressive disorder and work stress-related long-term sick leave among Swedish females

Stress ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agneta Sandström ◽  
Roland Säll ◽  
Jonas Peterson ◽  
Alireza Salami ◽  
Anne Larsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depressive Disorder ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Brain Activation ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Activation Patterns

scholarly journals Strengths and limitations of humor in educational organization staff's coping with work stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 2-3 (23) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Oksana Schotka ◽  
◽  
Yaroslava Andreeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Humor Styles ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Educational Organization ◽  
Organizational System ◽  
Humor Style ◽  
Organizational Resource ◽  
Moderate Relationship

Introduction.Humor as an element of the organizational system is relatively little studied in psychology, although humor is an important organizational resource, the skillful use of which can be helpful for organization managers in coping with work stress and promoting staff's psychological well-being.Aim: to find out the productivity of educational organization staff's humor styles and to determine the conditions for optimizing humor management in educational organizations. Methods.The author's questionnaire «Stress in Educators' Work and Communication», assessement questionnaires: «Methods of Assessment of Levels and Types of Sense of Humor»(I.S. Dombrovska,), «Self-assessment of Stress Resistance», «Coping Behavior in Stressful Situations»(E. Heim), «Test of Viability»(Muddy), content analysis of visual humorous content of educational sites and Facebook groups. Spearman's correlation analysis was used for statistical data processing.Results.The author has found a moderate relationship between the educational organization staff's humor style and stress copying, which allows defining a humor style focused on others as productive. The educational organization staff's self-humor with a hint of self-deprecation and staffʼs ability to passively perceive humor, did not associate with staffʼs stress coping. It has been found that educational organization staff uses mostly unproductive humor styles to overcome stress.Conclusion. The obtained findings offer a good possibility of training managers for conscious use of humorous interactions to reduce staff's work stress, given different effectiveness of different humor styles.

scholarly journals Investigating the Negative Relationship between Wages and Obesity: New Evidence from the Work, Family, and Health Network

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Trombley ◽  
Jeremy W. Bray ◽  
Jesse M. Hinde ◽  
Orfeu M. Buxton ◽  
Ryan C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Wage Penalty ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Using Data ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Direct Measures

A substantial literature has established that obesity is negatively associated with wages, particularly among females.  However, prior research has found limited evidence for the factors hypothesized to underlie the obesity wage penalty.  We add to the literature using data from IT workers at a U.S. Fortune 500 firm that provides us with direct measures of employee income and BMI, and health measures that are unavailable in national-level datasets.  Our estimates indicate that the wage-obesity penalty among females only occurs among obese mothers, and is not attributable to differences in health or human capital that may be caused by having children. Published: Online November 2018. 

scholarly journals P.2.07 Times of sick leave due to temporary disability related to a non-work-related illness and re-adaptation to work

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A89.1-A89
Author(s):  
Adriano Dias ◽  
João Marcos Bernardes ◽  
Juan Gomez-Salgado ◽  
Carlos Ruiz-Frutos
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Upper Airways ◽  
Historical Cohort ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Times

ObjectiveTo evaluate if the times of sick leave due to temporary disability related to a non-work-related illness (NWRI) depends on whether or not the workers have required a vocational rehabilitation.MethodHistorical cohort study of university workers in São Paulo, Brazil, between 2010 and 2015. Data were obtained from work institutional databases that recorded personal, occupation, physician’s examination and vocational rehabilitation data. The Charlson Comorbidity Index was obtained from medical history according to the most prevalent diagnoses in each physician’s assessment report and respective sick leave episode duration. Associations between variables were analyzed by simple and multiple Cox regression models.ResultsDepressive disorders, convalescences and back pain were responsible for 70% of all sick leaves due to non-work-related conditions that caused temporary disability. Follow-up time was decreased when the number of NWRI per worker increases, follow-up times until readaptation between 4 and 320 days and great variability within the same disease. The CCI weight was of 0 in 96.2% of sick leaves. In the Cox model, the number of physician’s examinations (HR=0.96), non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (HR=0.40) and primary essential hypertension (HR=0.29) were found to be significant protective factor for sick leave duration until vocational rehabilitation. Recurrent depressive disorders (HR=1.5), conjunctivitis (HR=2.78), acute sinusitis (HR=4.99), skin conditions (HR=3, 80), back pain (HR=1.62), kidney and ureter calculus (HR=2.31), pelvic abdominal pain (HR=2.33) and falls at the same level (HR=3.71) were risk factors to longer sick leave duration until vocational rehabilitation.ConclusionWhen there was more medical assessment during the period of sick leave the times were reduced and some diseases such as upper airways, eyes and skin, pain and depression require longer times until vocational rehabilitation.

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