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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"work stressors"”.
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Work stressors, strains and hospital unit performance
Hospital employees who work in an environment with zero tolerance to error, face several stressors that may result in psychological, physiological, and behavioural strains, and subsequently, in suboptimal performance. This thesis includes two studies which investigate the …
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The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers
… study investigated the relationships between work stressors, three moderator variables, and a variety of affective, behavioural and health outcomes. More specifically, it was hypothesized that the work stressors would be significantly associated with adverse affective, behavioural and health …
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Do Tight Deadlines and Dirty Diapers Fuel or Fizzle the Next Big Thing? The Differential Effect of Work and Non-Work Stressors on Employee Creativity
… an employee’s social environment, specifically stressors from their work and non-work roles, impacts their ability to generate new ideas at work. Two independent studies were conducted. Within Study 1, the challenge-hindrance framework was integrated with the componential model of creativity …
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A Longitudinal Investigation of the Mental Health Benefits of Physical Activity Among Graduate Students
… This increased risk could be attributed to the stressors graduate students routinely experience. However, few studies have examined the negative effects of work stressors among graduate students and ways to protect graduate students from the negative impact of stressors. This research explored …
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HINDRANCE OR CHALLENGE: DYNAMICS OF PARADOXICAL LEADER BEHAVIOR ON SUBORDINATE’S WORK MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT
… effects of paradoxical leader behavior. I use work stressors lens to postulate for two competing theoretical perspectives, one, grounded in the tenets of uncertainty reduction theory, positing that paradoxical leader behavior engenders hindrance stressors for subordinates, another, grounded in …
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The Psychological Sequelae of Police Work Stress: Exploring Potential Mediators and Moderators
… the degree to which several types of police work stressors (critical incidents, routine operational and organizational stressors) were associated with various kinds of problem behaviors (e.g., problem gambling, problem drinking), and explored several possible mediators and moderators of the …
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Increases in Drug and Alcohol Problems: A Combination of Job and Home Stressors?
… combination approach was used regarding home and work stressors. Results indicate support for the hypotheses that the combination of home and work stressors leads to an increase in both serious drug and alcohol problems (each measured separately). These findings are important especially since they …
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Implementing an Organisational Intervention for Work-related Stress : An Action Research Study.
… of an organisational intervention for work-related stress incorporating participatory principles. The study, set in the call centre business of a UK utilities company, aimed to contribute evidence of the effectiveness of the HSE Management Standards approach in managing work-related …
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Reflective Analysis of the Role Spirituality Plays in Educational Leaders' Coping Successes with a Focus on Gender Divergence
… Participants were given surveys to complete on work conflict, life satisfaction and spiritual well-being. The three instruments were the Interpersonal Conflict at Work Scale (ICAWS), the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), and the Spiritual Well Being Scale (SWB). This study employed …
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The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Organizational Justice on Intention to Cyberloaf through a General Deterrence Theory Lens
… of employees to misuse the Internet at the workplace, called cyberloafing. Although cyberloafing literature has suggested several antecedents that predict cyberloafing such as job attitudes, organizational characteristics, work stressors, locus of control (Blanchard & Henle, 2008; Henle & …
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An investigation into Stress and Coaching-needs in the National Health Service and UK Hospices
… to assess the levels of stress and the main work-stressors as experienced by members of staff working within two hospices in the UK. Phase 2 is a qualitative study using two focus groups, one at each hospice, to obtain a deeper understanding of the findings of phase 1. Phase 3 is an …
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Exploring child protection social workers' perceptions of how their experience of work and wellbeing influence each other
… study explored child protection social workers' perceptions of how their working experience and wellbeing positively and negatively influence each other. It also further considered child protection social workers' perceptions of the support currently available to them as well as any …
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Employee perspectives on the association of work stress and mental health at an institution of higher learning in the Western Cape Province, Southern Africa
Work stress has been identified as an epidemic within the workplace in South Africa and other parts of the world. Work stress has been shown to negatively affect employees' mental health, leading to the onset or exacerbation of common mental disorders such as chronic depression and anxiety. A …
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An Epidemiological Study of Exhaustion in the Context of Chronic stress. Concept, Cortisol, Causes and Consequences
… in exhaustion; associations with psychosocial work stressors; and significance for onset of a “stress-related disease”, i.e. cardiac disease. Two study populations were used. For Papers I, III, and IV, analyses were performed on data from the Malmö Shoulder and Neck Study (N = 12,607); …
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Moderators and underlying mechanisms of stress-induced eating
… increased intake in response to physical stressors, and high restrained eaters increased snack intake with work stressors. Studies Three, Four and Five investigated whether a change in attentional processes during stress could account for stress-induced intake in high external eaters. …
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Antecedents of work-family conflict among Hindu working women in South Africa: stressors, social support, and cultural values
Little is known about the antecedents of work-family conflict (WFC) among Hindu working women in South Africa, a minority subgroup shaped by a unique set of historical, political, and cultural dynamics. Responding to repeated calls in the literature for the examination of work-family issues in …
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Organizational Stress and Well-being In Public Service Executives: The Role of Stewardship
… a shift to more knowledge-based and fast paced work. Against the backdrop of complex organizational issues and multifaceted job demands, research has evolved to better integrate the social context into models of organizational stress and well-being. Stewardship has been proposed as an …
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Codependency Among Nurses: A Rural Urban Comparison
… undertaken to examine the role of environmental work stressors and family-of-origin dysfunction in the gensis of professional codependency and compare rural and urban samples of nurses using those parameters. The nursing literature presents us with two contradictory explanations of the relation …
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Qualitative study exploring Maternity Ward Attendants’ perceptions of occupational (work related) stress and the coping methods they adopted within maternity care settings (hospital) in Nigeria
… stress is a global and complex phenomenon, and workers in developing countries can be affected by it (International Labour Organisation 2001). Staff within maternity settings have been identified as being at risk of suffering from stress, resulting in adverse health outcomes (Evenden and Sharpe, …