Job stress and health: The role of social support at work

Browner, Carole H.

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“…As is commonly found married nurses and those living with a partner were found to suffer from fewer stress symptoms. A similar finding was made by Browner (1987) and Warheit et al (1975) and may be attributable to the additional social support provided by a partner.…”

Section: Family Factorssupporting

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Sources of stress and psychological well‐being in high‐dependency nursing

Tyler

Ellison

1994

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The present study examined occupational stress in four areas of high-dependency nursing: theatres, liver/renal, haematology/oncology and elective surgery. A total of 60 nurses from one large NHS hospital completed questionnaires on sources and levels of stress, psychological well-being and ways of coping; interviews with a small sub-sample were carried out. The results indicated that the amount of stress experienced was similar across all four departments, but its sources varied. Theatre nurses experienced less stress through patients' death and dying. Other factors which influenced both the level and sources of stress included post-qualification training, number of children and partnership-status. Nurses with post-qualification training perceived higher levels of stress. Social support was found to influence psychological well-being. Nurses who were living with a partner or were married experienced fewer stress symptoms than those with no partner, and nurses with two children experienced significantly less stress through dealing with patients and relatives. Reactions to stress elicited a range of adaptive and maladaptive coping styles. Nurses sampled indicated universal support for the introduction of 'nurse-for-a-day' and management 'swap-overs' as practised in Boston, USA. This study recommends sending nurses on management and administration courses and stress-management programmes.

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Section: Family Factorssupporting

confidence: 85%

Sources of stress and psychological well‐being in high‐dependency nursing

Tyler

Ellison

1994

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…This buffering effect can particularly be detected in case of non-job-related positive communications and social support among nurses (Fenlason and Beehr, 1990). Supportive relationships with peers and a good psychosocial work climate have, in addition, been found to be major sources of job satisfaction for nurses (Browner, 1987). This study goes further in suggesting that having supportive relationships with peers may reduce the occurrence of nurses' high stress levels.…”

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confidence: 51%

Work-related stress among nurses: a challenge for health care institutions

Pikó

1999

Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

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The issue of occupational stress amongst health care professionals is currently a major concern in health policy. The main goal of the present study has been to investigate the relationship between levels of stress among nurses, and some of the psychosocial and organisational characteristics of their job. The participants of the cross-sectional survey were female nurses (n = 218) chosen at random from public hospitals in Csongrad Country, Hungary. A self-administered questionnaire was the method used for data collection: this questionnaire contained various items on psychosomatic symptoms, self-perceived health, sociodemographic data, job satisfaction, health risk behaviours, drug consumption, emotional load and social support from peers. The findings suggest that the frequency of common psychosomatic symptoms (e.g. sleeping problems, tension headache, chronic fatigue or palpitations), regular alcohol drinking, heavy smoking, and frequent use of tranquilisers and sleeping pills can be read as an indicator of nurses' work-related stress level. Nurses with only primary education had the highest such levels, while those with baccalaureate-level education had the lowest. Furthermore, nurses aged 51-60 years and those on rotating night shift proved to be vulnerable to stress the most frequently. However, no significant differences were found between nurses working in-theatre and those non-theatre; nor was job satisfaction found to have a significant impact on the levels of stress experienced. The results suggest that supportive relationships with peers may reduce the occurrence of high stress levels among nurses, leading the author to conclude that social support and the psychosocial work climate should be improved in health care institutions.

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“…Estudos apontam que a presença de redes sociais que oferecem suporte ao trabalho melhora a avaliação do empregado sobre sua saúde e correlaciona-se negativamente com o estresse (Browner, 1987;Iwata & Suzuki, 1997). Segundo Tamayo, Lima e Silva (2002), o impacto do suporte social sobre o estresse ocupacional pode ser benéfico ou prejudicial, dependendo da qualidade desta dimensão na vida cotidiana da organização.…”

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Impacto dos valores laborais e da interferência família: trabalho no estresse ocupacional

Paschoal

Tamayo

2005

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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RESUMO − Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar a influência da interferência família-trabalho e dos valores do trabalho sobre o estresse ocupacional. Para tanto, utilizaram-se três instrumentos: Escala de Estresse no Trabalho, Escala de Interação Trabalho-Família e Escala de Valores Relativos ao Trabalho. Participaram da pesquisa 237 funcionários de uma instituição bancária. Os resultados indicaram que a interferência família-trabalho influencia o estresse ocupacional, sendo que quanto maior o escore de interferência, maior o estresse. Sugere-se que a interferência família-trabalho possa favorecer diretamente o aparecimento de estressores organizacionais e orientar cognições e afetos que influenciem a percepção de demandas do trabalho como estressores. Os valores do trabalho não apresentaram relação com o estresse ocupacional, o que pode ser decorrente do instrumento utilizado para avaliar o estresse ou da maior importância desses valores na escolha da profissão. Limitações e orientações para pesquisas futuras são apresentadas no texto.Palavras-chave: estresse ocupacional; valores do trabalho; interferência família-trabalho. Impact of Work Values and Family -Work Interference on Occupational StressABSTRACT − The objective of this research was to investigate the influence of family-work interference and work values on occupational stress. Three instruments were used to collect data: Work Stress Scale, the Work-Family Interaction Scale and the Work Values Scale. The instruments were administered to 237 workers of a banking institution. The results showed that the family-work interference did influence on occupational stress in the sense that higher scores on interference were correlated with higher stress. The authors suggest that family-work interference can directly contribute to the emergence of organizational stressors and influence cognition and affects that can have an impact on the person's perception of job demands as stressors. Work values had no relation with occupational stress. This could be explained by the instrument used to evaluate occupational stress or the importance given to work values in the process of professional choice. Limitations and orientations to future research are pointed.Key words: occupational stress; work values; family-work interference. o estresse ocupacional como um processo concebido por estressores e respostas e como um conceito relacional, o qual enfoca a relação entre o ambiente de trabalho e o sujeito. Isto pode ser observado, por exemplo, na teoria de Lazarus (1995), na teoria cibernética do estresse (Edwards, 1992) e na teoria de ajustamento pessoa-ambiente de Edwards e Cooper (1990). Lazarus (1995) propõe que o estresse ocupacional ocorre quando o indivíduo avalia as demandas do trabalho como excessivas para os recursos de enfrentamento que possui. O estresse não seria uma propriedade da pessoa ou do ambiente, mas poderia se desenvolver a partir da conjunção de um tipo particular de ambiente com um tipo determinado de pessoa. Pressão de tempo, sobrecarga de trabal...

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Job stress and health: The role of social support at work

Cited by 32 publications

References 11 publications

Sources of stress and psychological well‐being in high‐dependency nursing

Sources of stress and psychological well‐being in high‐dependency nursing

Work-related stress among nurses: a challenge for health care institutions

Impacto dos valores laborais e da interferência família: trabalho no estresse ocupacional

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