Associations among stress, gender, sources of social support, and health in emerging adults
This study aimed to examine how sources of social support intersect with stress and health by testing two theoretical models. Three relationship‐specific sources of social support (family, friends, and romantic partners) and two health indicators (self‐rated physical health and depressive symptoms) were investigated. The sample consisted of 636 emerging adults attending college (age range: 18–25). Results suggest that only support from family was a stress‐buffer, in that it buffered the adverse association between stress and depressive symptoms. Holding stress constant, only support from family was related to self...
Source: Stress and Health - October 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chih ‐Yuan Steven Lee, Bryan J. Dik Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Healthy Change Processes —A Diary Study of Five Organizational Units. Establishing a Healthy Change Feedback Loop
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This paper explores a change process in the Central Norway Regional Health Authority that was brought about by the implementation of a new economics and logistics system. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of how employees' attitudes towards change develop over time and how attitudes differ between the five health trusts under this authority. In this paper, we argue that a process‐oriented focus through a longitudinal diary method, in addition to action research and feedback loops, will provide greater understanding of the evaluation of organizational change and interventions. This is ex...
Source: Stress and Health - October 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mathilde Lien, Per Øystein Saksvik Tags: Special Issue Paper Source Type: research
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Source: Stress and Health - October 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Emotional contagion and burnout among nurses and doctors: Do joy and anger from different sources of stakeholders matter?
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The present study adds novel knowledge to the literature on emotional contagion (EC), discrete emotions, job burnout, and the management of healthcare professionals by simultaneously considering EC as both a job demand and a job resource with multiple social pathways. Integrating EC into the job demands‐resource model, we develop and test a conceptual model wherein multiple stakeholder sources of emotional exchanges (i.e., leaders, colleagues, patients) play a differential role in predicting caregivers' absorption of positive (i.e., joy) and negative (i.e., anger) emotions, and in turn, burnout. We tested this n...
Source: Stress and Health - October 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Petitta, Lixin Jiang, Charmine E.J. H ärtel Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The importance of provision and utilization of supervisor support
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Three cross‐sectional studies examined the benefits of provision of supervisor support while controlling for subordinate utilization of supervisor support. Data were collected from workers in a subordinate role (Study 1 N = 355; Study 2 N = 229; Study 3 N = 109). Consistent with expectations, provision of supervisor support consistently explained unique variance in affective job criteria while controlling for utilization of supervisor support. The results indicate that supervisors should acknowledge that their workers experience the affective benefits of supervisor support even if the workers do not con...
Source: Stress and Health - October 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alec Munc, Kevin Eschleman, Janet Donnelly Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Is work keeping us from acting healthy? How workplace barriers and facilitators impact nutrition and exercise behaviors
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The purpose of this study was to identify common barriers and facilitators to healthy nutrition and exercise behaviors in the workplace and examine their relationships to those actual daily health behaviors. We utilized a concurrent embedded mixed methods approach to collect data from 93 participants over the span of four days. Participants reported 2.80 nutrition and 3.28 exercise barriers on average over the 4 days, while reporting 2.93 nutrition and 1.98 exercise facilitators in the same timeframe. Results indicated that workload and temptations around the office prevented nutritious eating; exercise behaviors...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph J. Mazzola, J. Taylor Moore, Katherine Alexander Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Financial strain, dyadic coping, relationship satisfaction, and psychological distress: A dyadic mediation study in Greek couples
In this study, we examined the indirect relation of financial strain to partners' relationship satisfaction and psychological distress, using dyadic coping as a mediator, in a sample of Greek couples. One hundred and eighteen couples participated in a cross‐sectional study. Perceived material loss in the past and perceived threat of loss in the future were used as financial strain indices. The actor–partner interdependence mediation model was employed to test for the mediation hypotheses. According to the results, the complete mediation (i.e., only indirect) effects models showed an unsatisfactory fit to the data and w...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Evangelos C. Karademas, Pagona Roussi Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mental health of women entering fertility treatment: What role do age and internal resources play?
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Drawing on Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) model of stress and coping, the study aimed at (a) examining the associations between the mental health of women entering fertility treatment and their internal resources (hope and two aspects of self‐consciousness: reflection and rumination); (b) indicating whether mental health is associated with age (above or below 35), and whether this association is mediated by the internal resources.
The sample consisted of 137 women (76 aged 20–34; 61 aged 35–44) at the start of fertility treatment who completed a series of self‐report questionnaires.
Results indicated that yo...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shirley Ben Shlomo, Vera Skvirsky, Orit Taubman – Ben‐Ari, Yoseph Azuri, Eran Horowitz Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Stress, fatigue, and sleep quality leading up to and following a stressful life event
This study aims to examine (a) the time course of stress, fatigue, and sleep quality among PhD students awaiting a stressful event and (b) whether daily anticipation of this event influences day‐level stress, fatigue, and sleep quality. Forty‐four PhD students completed evening and morning questionnaires on eight days from 1 month before their dissertation defense until one month thereafter. Results showed increased stress leading up to the defense, while fatigue and sleep quality remained unchanged. Comparing the night before the defense with the night after, stress rapidly decreased, whereas fatigue and sleep qualit...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michelle Van Laethem, Debby G.J. Beckers, Ap Dijksterhuis, Sabine A.E. Geurts Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Patterns in response to chronic terrorism threats: A construct of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses among Israeli citizens
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Israeli citizens are exposed to unpredictable and chronic terrorism threats that significantly jeopardize their personal sense of safety. The purpose of the present study is to present how Israeli discourse is structured with regard to emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to chronic terrorism threats and to understand the range of responses as well as map the risk and protective factors of this existential threat. Semistructured in‐depth interviews were conducted with 40 Israeli adults (22 women and 18 men). Qualitative analysis revealed three patterns of responses to ongoing terrorism: emotional, cogn...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Keren Cohen ‐Louck, Yael Saka Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Mindfulness as a personal resource to reduce work stress in the job demands ‐resources model
This study contributes to the literature by employing empirical analysis to the task of unravelling how personal resources function within the JD‐R model. It also introduces mindfulness as a personal resource in the JD‐R model. (Source: Stress and Health)
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven L. Grover, Stephen T.T. Teo, David Pick, Maree Roche Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Relational job characteristics and well ‐being: A study among Portuguese and Brazilian hospital nurses
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Nurse well‐being is a crucial factor in the quality of care given to patients and in patient safety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the psychological effects of relational job characteristics (PERJCs) and indicators of well‐being in hospital nurses. The data for this correlational study were collected from an online survey responded to by a sample of 620 hospital nurses (335 Portuguese and 285 Brazilian). Statistical procedures included structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis. A full mediation model was supported by data analysis, in which work‐related wel...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alda Santos, Filipa Castanheira, Maria Jos é Chambel, Michael Vieira Amarante, Carlos Costa Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Curvilinear relationships between resource allocation and life domain ‐specific interference
This study investigated the inherent complexities of the work‐life interface (WLI) by examining the relationship between resource allocation (i.e., time and energy dedicated to a particular domain) and perceived interference of individual life domains. Much of the research on the WLI is based on the assumption that a linear pattern best describes the relationship between resource allocation and the interference caused by various life domains; however, this study examined the possibility that curvilinear relationships may be a more appropriate representation. Results indicated that resource allocation is a meaningful pred...
Source: Stress and Health - September 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica S. Waldrop, Kaitlyn R. Erb, Matthew J. Grawitch Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Relationship Between Meditation Depth and Waking Salivary Alpha ‐Amylase Secretion Among Long‐Term MBSR Instructors
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The purpose of this study was to characterize sympathetic activity by using waking salivary alpha‐amylase (sAA) concentrations in a group of long‐term meditation instructors and to examine the association between meditation (depth, dose and duration) and the waking alpha‐amylase response. Salivary alpha‐amylase samples were collected (immediately upon waking and at 15‐min, 30‐min and 45‐min intervals after waking) from mindfulness‐based stress reduction instructors to determine both the area under the curve and the awakening slope (difference in alpha‐amylase concentrations between waking and 30...
Source: Stress and Health - September 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alyson Haslam, Michael D. Wirth, Sara Wagner Robb Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Gender Differences in Perceptions of Resources and Turnover Intentions of Work ‐Linked Couples in Masculine Occupations
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Employees in work‐linked marriages have spouses that share the same family and the same workplace and/or occupation. Whereas, in recent years, there has been increasingly more research on dual‐career marriages (i.e. both spouses work, but not necessarily at the same workplace and/or occupation), there has been very little research on work‐linked marriages. The current study focuses on work resources (i.e. family supportive supervisor behaviour and job control) as key mediating processes that explain the effect of gender on turnover intentions among work‐linked employees in masculine occupations (i.e. milit...
Source: Stress and Health - September 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Hergatt Huffman, Kristine J. Olson Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
