Help me if you can: Psychological distance and help ‐seeking intentions in employee–supervisor relations
Abstract
Social support at work is considered useful in treating job‐related stress, and supervisors' emotional support has been found to be the most effective source of support at work. But an understanding of what elements make employees use supervisors as a source of emotional support is lacking. The present qualitative study included in‐depth interviews with 24 teachers and 12 principals and a focus group with 12 school counsellors. The findings pointed at 2 groups of determinants of subordinates' intentions of asking socioemotional help from supervisors. The structural–organizational factors included low formali...
Source: Stress and Health - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Izhak Berkovich, Ori Eyal Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Examining the psychological and emotional mechanisms of mindfulness that reduce stress to enhance healthy behaviours
This study investigated a mediation model that explores psychological and emotional coping processes (reappraisal, suppression, and psychological flexibility) as mechanisms connecting mindfulness to reduced stress perceptions and reactions, which then predict physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and sleep quality. Adults (n = 233) completed self‐report measures via Amazon's Mechanical Turk and path modelling was used to test the model for direct, indirect, and total effects. Results revealed that greater mindfulness was indirectly associated with greater engagement in all 3 health behaviours through the ...
Source: Stress and Health - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sara J. Sagui ‐Henson, Sara M. Levens, Cara L. Blevins Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Reactions to psychological contract breaches and organizational citizenship behaviours: An experimental manipulation of severity
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Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Type D personality is associated with increased desire for alcohol in response to acute stress
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Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Change in perceived stress and 2 ‐year change in cognitive function among older adults: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
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Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Change in perceived stress and 2 ‐year change in cognitive function among older adults: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
This study aimed to investigate whether a change in perceived stress over 2 years predicts a change in cognitive performance over the same time period in a population‐based sample of older adults. Data from the first 2 waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing were analyzed. Five thousand and seventy adults aged 50 and older completed the 4‐item Perceived Stress Scale and measures of verbal fluency, immediate and delayed word recall 2 years apart. A first differences regression model revealed that the change in stress over 2 years was inversely associated with a change in immediate word recall performance, eve...
Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. Feeney, M. O'Sullivan, R.A. Kenny, I.H. Robertson Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Reactions to psychological contract breaches and organizational citizenship behaviours: An experimental manipulation of severity
Abstract
Grounded in affective events theory, we investigated the effects of experimentally manipulated psychological contract breaches on participants' feelings of violation, subsequent perceptions of psychological contract strength, and organizational citizenship behaviours in a sample of working adults. Results support previous findings that pre‐existing relational psychological contract strength interacts with severity of unmet promises or expectations. Specifically, individuals with high relational contracts who experience low severity of unmet promises/expectations have the lowest breach perceptions, whereas indivi...
Source: Stress and Health - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Theresa P. Atkinson, Russell A. Matthews, Alexandra A. Henderson, Christiane Spitzmueller Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Challenge and hindrance demands lead to employees' health and behaviours through intrinsic motivation
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Source: Stress and Health - January 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relationship style and glycaemic control in women with type 2 diabetes: The mediating role of psychological distress
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Source: Stress and Health - January 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Relationship style and glycaemic control in women with type 2 diabetes: The mediating role of psychological distress
This study examined whether depressive symptoms and/or diabetes distress mediate the association between relationship style and glycaemic control in women with diabetes. Seventy‐five women with type 2 diabetes completed the Relationship Questionnaire. Participants endorsing “secure” or “preoccupied” adult attachment were combined into the interactive relationship style and “dismissing/avoidant” or “fearful” adult attachment were combined into the independent relationship style. Glycaemic control was a latent variable composed of A1c and 48‐hr continuously measured glucose. Diabetes distress was assessed...
Source: Stress and Health - January 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Omar Braizat, Richard Feinn, Gina Abbott, Julie Wagner Tags: SHORT COMMUNICATION Source Type: research
