Work‐related stress and well‐being: The roles of direct action coping and palliative coping

Abstract

. Work-related stress and well-being: The roles of direct action coping and palliative coping. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 47 ,[293][294][295][296][297][298][299][300][301][302] The purpose of the present study is to analyze the roles of direct action coping and palliative coping in the relationship between work stressors and psychological well-being, as well as their possible interactions, in a sample of 464 bank employees. Hierarchical regression analyses showed main effects of direct action coping on well-being. Palliative coping predicts higher levels of psychological distress. Contrary to what was expected, the interactions between work stressors and direct action coping were not significant. Palliative coping interacted with work stressors when predicting psychosomatic complaints. The interaction between the two types of coping was significant on psychosomatic complaints and psychological distress, but not on job satisfaction. The paper discusses theoretical and practical implications of these results, in order to design intervention strategies to prevent and manage job stress.

Lidiando con el burnout: Análisis de relaciones lineales, no lineales y de interacción.

“…In both cases the level of action-focused coping hardly affects the variation. Combining action and emotion coping strategies has significant effects as pointed out by Fortes-Ferreira et al (2006), and by Shimazu and Kosugi (2003), but it should be noted that excessive use of emotion-focused coping might end up cancelling the beneficial effects of action-focused coping. That is, although action-focused coping strategies, pointed directly on the problem or stressor, have good results to combat the sources of stress, however the prolonged use of these strategies can cause great deterioration on the subject so that the combined use of action and emotion anales de psicología, 2017, vol.…”

“…The selection of items was made on the basis of expert judgment, keeping in mind the Steiler and Paty, (2009) factorial solution of two factors and the concept validity of action-focused coping and palliative coping (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984;Dewe, 1989). This procedure has been used in a similar way in previous research (Fortes-Ferreira et al 2006). A confirmatory factor analysis confirms an adequate overall fit of the two-factors model (goodness of fit index = .93; adjusted goodness of fit index = .91; root mean square error of approximation = .07).…”

“…Even more, the interdependency between coping strategies has been explored. Some studies have shown that it is appropriate to combine coping strategies, both active as well as evasive, because it is presumed that coping will be more efficacious when active and evasive are combined together (Fortes-Ferreira, Peiró, González-Morales, & Martin, 2006;Shimazu & Kosugi, 2003). For instance, Koeske, Kirk, and Koeske (1993) pointed that evasive coping seem to be beneficial only if active strategies are also used.…”

Reducing conflict-related employee strain: The benefits of an internal locus of control and a problem-solving conflict management strategy

“…active) coping strategies. Recent empirical research among bank employees revealed that active coping (''direct action coping'') positively predicted job satisfaction and negatively predicted psychological distress (Fortes-Ferreira, Peiró, Conzález-Morales, & Martin, 2006). The relationship between control and pro-active behaviour is also reflected in taxonomies concerning conflict management strategies that are based on the Dual Concern Model (Blake & Mouton, 1964;Rubin, Pruitt, & Kim, 1992).…”

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“…Yulong and his colleagues also reported that increased coping resources (e.g., selfcare, social support, recreation and rational coping) had a buffering effect on the relationship between work-related psychosocial factors and psychological distress (Lian et al, 2016). On the contrary, other studies have only provided weak (Bhagat et al, 1995;Greenglass et al, 1990) or no (Fortes-Ferreira et al, 2006;Rick and Guppy, 1994) interaction effect between coping resources and psychological distress in the work environment.Uncertainty as to the role of coping resources with regards to the modulation of psychological distress in the workplace probably reflects methodological issues associated with clarifying any relationship. The interaction effect between the different coping resources (coping strategies, and social support) and their capacity to impact psychological distress has been insufficiently studied.…”