Chronic Work Stress and Coping: A Longitudinal Study and Suggested New Directions

Nelson, Debra L.; Sutton, Charlotte D.

doi:10.5465/256295

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“…Further, qocial support helped reduce the level of unmet-expectations stress and facilitate adjustment. Finally, Nelson and Sutton (1990) found that distress symptoms reported prior to organizational entry accounted for 32 per cent of the variance in distress symptoms nine months after entry. They argued that this finding suggests the possibility of a dispositional influence on distress symptoms.…”

Section: Newcomer Anxiety and Stressmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Although previous research has considered the situational determinants of newcomers' distress symptoms (Nelson et al, 1988;Sutton, 1990,1991), much less research has examined individual difference variables that might be related to newcomers' anxiety and stress (Nelson and Sutton, 1990). The first purpose of this study was to examine newcomers' self-efficacy beliefs as a potential individual difference variable that might be related to entry experiences of anxiety and stress.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Moderating effects of self‐efficacy for the relationship between training method and anxiety and stress reactions of newcomers

Saks

1994

J Organ Behavior

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The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of self‐efficacy for the relationship between training method and newcomers' anxiety and stress reactions. The two methods of training examined were formal orientation and training and tutorial training. A sample of 198 newly‐hired entry‐level accountants completed a questionnaire following their first few weeks of entry. The results indicated that self‐efficacy was negatively related to anxiety but not stress. However, a positive relationship between anxiety and stress suggested that self‐efficacy was indirectly related to stress through its relationship with anxiety. Further, self‐efficacy was found to moderate the relationship between training method and anxiety. Formal orientation and training was related to lower anxiety for newcomers with low technical self‐efficacy. The opposite result was found for tutorial training. Tutorial training was related to higher anxiety for newcomers with low academic self‐efficacy. The relationship between training and anxiety did not vary by training method for newcomers with high self‐efficacy. The research and practical implications of a self‐efficacy theory framework are discussed for the training, socialization, and adjustment of newcomers.

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Section: Newcomer Anxiety and Stressmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moderating effects of self‐efficacy for the relationship between training method and anxiety and stress reactions of newcomers

Saks

1994

J Organ Behavior

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“…Greenhalgh, 1979;Jick, 1979). Parasuraman and Alutto (1984) proposed that the stress-performance relationship may be mediated by the effectiveness of the coping strategies employed, Unfortunately, performance outcomes have received little attention in the research on coping (Nelson and Sutton, 1990). It was expected that survivors who engaged in high control coping would report higher organizational commitment, lower turnover intention, and higher job performance than survivors who did not use control coping.…”

Section: Outcomes Of Copingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coping with transition: A study of layoff survivors

1994

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This study examined the determinants and consequences of survivors' coping responses to a recent workforce reduction involving permanent layoffs. The participants consisted of 200 unionized technicians in the telecommunications industry. Survivors with high optimistic predispositions and a strong sense of mastery were more likely to engage in control‐oriented coping. Perceived threat of job loss was positively related to the use of both control and escape coping whereas sense of powerlessness was negatively related to the use of control coping. Control coping was associated with positive outcomes and escape coping with negative outcomes. Coping had both additive and interactive effects on the outcome variables. The implications of these findings for management are discussed.

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“…Problem-focused coping consists of activities targeted at managing and improving the stressful situation or stressor, while emotion-focused coping is evident when the person attempts directly to reduce the emotional strain experienced (Bhagat, Ford and Allie, 1991; Lee, Ashford and Jamieson, 1993). Nelson and Sutton (1990) concluded that any traditional measures of coping derived from life stress research may not be useful for work settings, and we therefore focused on occupation-specific research and informal preliminary interviews to develop coping items for the study. Although the lack of a clear consensus about types of coping in the literature led us to develop our own empirical measures of coping based on preliminary discussions with peopie in the occupation being studied, we subsequently interpreted the study's coping activities aceording to this well-known dichotomy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Occupational stress: Coping of police and their spouses

1995

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One hundred seventy‐seven police officers and their spouses from two metropolitan areas completed separate questionnaires regarding stress and coping. Both the police and spouses reported using four coping activities in response to their own stressors: problem focused, emotion focused, religiosity, and rugged individualism. Three potential police strains previously noted in non‐empirical literature were given special attention; divorce potential, drinking behavior, and suicide thoughts.

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Chronic Work Stress and Coping: A Longitudinal Study and Suggested New Directions

Cited by 36 publications

References 20 publications

Moderating effects of self‐efficacy for the relationship between training method and anxiety and stress reactions of newcomers

Moderating effects of self‐efficacy for the relationship between training method and anxiety and stress reactions of newcomers

Coping with transition: A study of layoff survivors

Occupational stress: Coping of police and their spouses

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