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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"role stress"”.
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An analysis of role stress and turnover intention
… study was to analyse the relationship between role stress and turnover intention among registered professional nurses in three public academic hospitals in the Western Cape. It further examined the dimensions of role stress to establish a hierarchy of these variables as experienced by the …
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Men in Nursing: Masculine Gender Role Stress and Job Satisfaction
… that turnover, are of concern. Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) may play a part in men's responses to nursing culture and settings, and may influence job satisfaction in a manner that affects behavior and tenure. This descriptive correlational study examined relationships between MGRS and job …
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Aggression: Relationships with Sex, Gender Role Identity, and Gender Role Stress.
<p>Sex, gender-role identity, and gender-role stress were assessed in terms of their relationship to observed gender differences in self-reported aggression. Physical and verbal aggression were explored, as well as the affective component of anger and cognitive component of hostility. The role of …
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Managing Role Stress in Service Occupations: Addressing Gaps in Boundary Spanner Research
… the negative outcomes of boundary spanners’ role stress are well- known to service theory and practice, insights into how to manage frontline employees to lower experienced role stress are sparse. Moreover, extant research fails to include most up-to-date challenges of new service …
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The Feminine Gender Role Stress Scale: Development, Factor Analysis, and Preliminary Validation
… was to develop a measure of feminine gender role stress appraisal (FGRS), the cognitive tendency to appraise threats and challenges to femininity as stressful. Stressors particularly salient for women were identified. Through factor analysis these stressors were categorized as situations …
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The associations between gender role stress, media usage, and metacognition in emerging adults
… between electronic media consumption and gender role stress and whether these relationships are dependent upon metacognitive abilities. Student participants (n = 238) between the ages of 18 and 25 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were recruited and completed self-report measures of …
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Organisational role stress and work engagement among nurses working in intermediate hospital Oshakati, Namibia
Generally, Organisational Role Stress (ORS) arises when there is no balance between one’s work requirement and conditions, and capabilities, which is due to the organisational role of one’s occupation. Health care organisations are characterised by industrialisation, urbanisation, and technological …
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Role stress, the Type A behaviour pattern, and external auditor job satisfaction and performance
There are many potential catalysts to job-related stress in the external auditor's environment. The two principal elements of role stress, role conflict and role ambiguity, represent two sources of stress to which auditors appear to be particularly exposed. The study reported in this thesis sought …
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The relationship of masculine gender role stress to emotional expressiveness, psychophysiological reactivity, and social support
… that the cultural imposition of masculine gender role norms contributes to physical and mental health disorders among men. The construct of masculine gender role stress (MGRS) is a gender based perspective of stress which posits that masculine gender role cognitive schemata are employed by men to …
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Exploration of the relationship between acculturation and role stress in nursing students and new graduate nurses
… new graduate nurses experience a great deal of role stress and acculturation issues may compound that stress. The goal of this secondary analysis was to assess the relationship between acculturation levels of student nurses and their role stress experienced in nursing school and in their first …
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The Mediating Effect of Anger Proneness on the Relationship Between Masculine Gender Role Stress and Aggression
… the current study was to examine the mediating role of anger proneness in explaining the relationship between masculine gender role stress (MGRS) and aggression. Additionally, the moderating effect of anger proneness was also examined. Both physical and verbal forms of aggression were examined …
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DISCREPANCY MEASURES OF ROLE PERCEPTIONS AS SURROGATE MEASURES OF OCCUPATIONAL ROLE STRESS: A THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUE
Discrepancy or difference measures of job-related role perceptions have long been employed as environmentally-based surrogate measures of occupational role stress (i.e., subjective role conflict and role ambiguity). The validity of these differences measures as alternate indices of role stess, …
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Cardiovascular reactivity in men as a function of masculine gender role stress, Type-A behavior, and hostility
… construct and measurement of Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) validates the assumption of sex differences in the appraisal of stressful situations. The present study was designed to extend the validity of the construct, MGRS, by examining its association with a set of physiological responses …
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Cardiovascular reactivity to stress in men: effects of masculine gender role stress appraisal and masculine performance challenge
… heart disease. The present study examines the role of masculine cognitive appraisal of stress as a mediator of cardiovascular reactivity in men. The reactivity of men who differed on a measure of cognitive appraisal of masculine gender role stress (MGRS) was compared using the cold-pressor test …
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Femininity, Feminine Gender Role Stress, Body Dissatisfaction, and their Relationships to Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
… that assessed femininity, feminine gender role stress, body dissatisfaction, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Results showed that body dissatisfaction mediates the relationship between femininity or feminine gender role stress with bulimia symptoms, as well as the relationship between …
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The experience of managers responsible for retrenchment : the development of a dynamic process model and analysis of role stress
… The impact of retrenchment on managers and their role in implementation has been particularly neglected, despite the fact that they are central to this process. The present study addressed the development of a dynamic retrenchment process model which could address these limitations. Development of …
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An investigation into the association between role stress and absenteeism among nurses in the South African public health sector
… research investigated the association between role stress, and the impact thereof on nurse absence frequency, voluntary and involuntary absence. Data was collected from 230 nurses (N = 230) in the Western Cape using a structured self-report survey. Statistical analysis of the results revealed …
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An empirical investigation of the relationship between purchasing professionals' perceptions of role stress and selected antecedent and consequent variables
… that 'marketer controlled' variables have on the role conflict and role ambiguity of the public purchasing professional can thus contribute to marketing management and to marketing thought. Two of these variables are the perceived Customer Orientation of the Vendor salesperson and the Influence …
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Effects of Masculine Gender Role Stress and Pre-arousal on Men's Cognitive, Affective, and Physiological Responses to Intimate Conflict Situations
… research has indicated that the Masculine Gender Role Stress (MGRS) scale has been useful in identifying men who are susceptible to appraising threat in situations that challenge their masculine gender roles. Furthermore, Zillmann's excitation-transfer theory has proposed that elevated levels of …
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