Communal Versus Individualistic Construction of Sense of Mastery in Facing Life Challenges

Hobfoll, Stevan E.; Schröder, Kerstin E. E.; Wells, Melissa; Malek, Mary J.

doi:10.1521/jscp.21.4.362.22596

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“…The implications of these findings are that, for employees with chronic illness, being able to engage in behaviours that entail the use of personal resources and that may facilitate the development of their careers is significantly determined by the extent to which they feel safe to get involved and to which they feel trusted and respected in the workplace. In accordance with the propositions from COR theory (Hobfoll, 2002), the provision of a psychologically safe working environment for employees with chronic illness leads to a greater likelihood that these employees would seek opportunities to r isk resource investment in the performance OCBs. The mechanisms that translate the exper ience of work engagement into positive work behaviours do, therefore, appear to differ for particular groups of employees, where perceptions of personal resource availability differ.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Increasing recognition is being given to the role of psychological resources within current models of workplace stress and wellbeing, with respect to both the promotion of worker wellness, and the management of stress reactions (Bakker & Schaufeli, 2008;Hobfoll, 2002). The basic tenet of COR theory applied to the work context (Westman, Hobfoll, Chen, Davidson, & Laski, 2005) is that employees are motivated to obtain, foster and protect the things they value.…”

Section: Conservation Of Resources Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safe to Engage: Chronic Illness and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours at Work

Kirk-Brown¹,

Dijk

2011

Int. J. Disabil. Manag.

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T he aim of this study is to extend current models of employee work engagement to include chronic illness in order to better understand and predict workforce participation for the chronically ill. Using a sample of 604 participants, the current study examined the relationship between work engagement, perceptions of psychological safety at work and the performance of organisational citizenship behaviours for employees with chronic illness (N = 92) compared to a referent group of general employees (N = 512). Results indicate that for chronically ill employees, psychological safety partially mediates the relationship between engagement and the performance of organisational citizenship behaviours. These results suggest that the development of a workplace environment characterised by feelings of safety, interpersonal trust and mutual respect will foster the performance of engaged work behaviours for a group of employees vulnerable to the experience of a reduced sense of personal efficacy in the workplace and consequent premature retirement.

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Section: Conservation Of Resources Theorymentioning

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Safe to Engage: Chronic Illness and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours at Work

Kirk-Brown¹,

Dijk

2011

Int. J. Disabil. Manag.

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“…Both conceptions address obviously urban educated individuals, because research has mainly concentrated on college and university students. Following this, different variations of the interdependent self were proposed such as the conjoint agency [9], communal mastery [10] or relationally autonomous self [11].…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness as organizers of developmental pathways

Keller¹

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Some individuals are primarily social in their response to problems, defining themselves in terms of their interconnectedness and relationships with their family and friends [13,23]. When faced with a shared health threat (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Women are more likely than men to see themselves as interconnected with others and to see their actions as socially interwoven [23]. Women seem to benefit more than men from relationships with same-sex relatives [12,25].…”

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Sisters in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families: communal coping, social integration, and psychological well‐being

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Objective We investigated the association between psychological distress and indices of social integration and communal coping among sisters from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) families. Sample and methods Sixty-five sisters from 31 HBOC families completed the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 and the Colored Eco-Genetic Relationship Map, which identified members of participants’ social support networks. Hierarchical linear models were used for all analyses to account for the clustering of sisters within families. Results Intra-family correlation coefficients suggested that sisters shared perceptions of breast cancer risk and worry, but not ovarian cancer risk and worry. Further, sisters demonstrated shared levels of anxiety and somatization, but not depressive symptoms. Communal coping indices quantifying shared support resources were negatively related to anxiety and somatization. The number of persons with whom cancer risk information was shared exhibited a positive trend with somatization. Social integration, as measured by the size of participants’ emotional support network, was negatively associated with anxiety. Lower depression scores were observed among participants with more persons playing multiple support roles and fewer persons providing tangible assistance. Conclusion Understanding how support relationships impact well-being among persons adjusting to HBOC risk, and the particular role of family in that process, will facilitate developing appropriate management approaches to help cancer-prone families adjust to their cancer risk. Published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Communal Versus Individualistic Construction of Sense of Mastery in Facing Life Challenges

Cited by 59 publications

References 62 publications

Safe to Engage: Chronic Illness and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours at Work

Safe to Engage: Chronic Illness and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours at Work

Psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness as organizers of developmental pathways

Sisters in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families: communal coping, social integration, and psychological well‐being

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