The Effects of Total Life Stress on Employee Withdrawal Behaviors and Organizational Attitudes.

Six personality dimensions derived from a principal components analysis of the 16 PF were examined as possible modifiers of the impact of recent life changes on illness behavior in a prospective study of a student sample ( N = 136). Results indicated that undesirable life changes significantly predicted illness behavior while total life changes did not. None of the six personality dimensions proved to be significant predictors of illness behavior. The results did, however, indicate a significant interaction between the dimension of sensitivity and life stress, with low scorers on this dimension showing a strong tendency to react to life stress with increased illness behavior while high scorers did not. This finding is interpreted in terms of Sheldrake's hypothesis that more outer-directed persons would tend to suppress direct evidence of stress and therefore discharge stresses through forms of illness commonly regarded as non-stress-related.

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Quality Circles and Employee Withdrawal Behaviors: A Cross-Organizational Study

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science ◽

10.1177/0021886392281007 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 62-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kimberly Buch

Keyword(s):

Quality Circles ◽

Withdrawal Behaviors ◽

Employee Withdrawal ◽

Organizational Study

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How Shared Capitalism Affects Employee Withdrawal: An Econometric Case Study Of A French-Listed Company

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v31i3.9226 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 925

Author(s):

Nicolas Aubert ◽

Xavier Hollandts

Keyword(s):

Recent Literature ◽

Listed Company ◽

Gift Exchange ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Shared Capitalism ◽

Withdrawal Behaviors ◽

Employee Withdrawal ◽

The Relationship

The academic literature emphasizes that shared capitalism positively affects employees attitudes at work. This paper investigates that issue by testing the relationship between shared capitalism and withdrawal behaviors (turnover and absenteeism). Recent literature interprets shared capitalism as a gift exchange between employers and employees. This paper builds on that literature. The analysis, based on an econometric case study, focuses on a five-year panel dataset of more than 800 subsidiaries belonging to a unique French-listed company. Our results show that only long-term shared capitalism translates into better withdrawal behaviors.

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Supplemental Material for Who Withdraws? Psychological Individual Differences and Employee Withdrawal Behaviors

Journal of Applied Psychology ◽

10.1037/apl0000068.supp ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Withdrawal Behaviors ◽

Employee Withdrawal

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Life Stress and Symptoms at the Climacterium

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.136.5.486 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 136 (5) ◽

pp. 486-491 ◽

Cited By ~ 118

Author(s):

J. G. Greene ◽

D. J. Cooke

Keyword(s):

Multivariate Analysis ◽

Life Stress ◽

Normal Population ◽

Somatic Symptoms ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Considerable Time ◽

Life Event ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Event Model ◽

Total Life

SummaryPsychological and somatic symptoms presented by women in middle life are frequently attributed to the menopause. Many writers have questioned this assumption and have placed more emphasis on environmental and personality factors. Using a life event model and a multivariate analysis technique, life stress was shown to have a significantly more powerful influence on the elevation of symptoms in a normal population of women at that age than did the menopause. Furthermore, the elevation in symptoms occurred some considerable time before that event. The finding that there was no significant increase in total life stress at that time of life suggests the presence of a vulnerability or moderating factor.

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