Occupational Stress: A Handbook: A Handbook (Series in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine)

Bringing together renowned scholars, this handbook contains innovative current empirical and theoretical research in the area of job stress. The workplace is one of the major sources of stress in an individual's life. Placing this important topic in the context of a transactional process, this work is intended to be of use to practitioners working in clinical, organisational, family and health psychology, mental health, substance abuse, the military, and with families and women.; Chapters are arranged in five parts, the first considering theoretical approaches with an introductory article by Professor Emeritus Richard S. Lazarus. Next is an examination of various model testing formats, followed by a section on occupational stress research and coping mechanisms. Fourth is a collection of articles on the subject of burnout, and the book closes with two distinct interventions directed at stress reduction. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Foreword 14 Contributors 10 Part One: Theoretical Perspectives in Occupational Stress Research 18 Psychological Stress and the Workplace: A Brief Comment on Lazarus' Outlook 32 Psychological Stress in the Workplace 20 An Examination of the Transaction Approach in Occupational Stress Research 38 Work Stress Conceived and Researched Transactionally 46 Unstructured Perceptions of Work-Related Stress: An Exploratory Qualitative Study 56 Measuring Occupational Stress: The Job Stress Survey 68 Part Two: Sources and Consequences Of Occupational Stress: Model Testing 88 Antecedents and Organizational Effectiveness Outcomes of Employee Stress and Health 90 Coping with Stressful Life Events: An Empirical Analysis 110 A Field Study of Some Antecedents and Consequences of Felt Job Stress 130 Relationship of Work and Family Stressors to Psychological Distress: The Independent Moderating Influence of Social Support, Mastery, Active Coping, and SeH-Focused Attention 146 Part Three: The Roles of Coping and Dispositional Influences in Occupational Stress Research 168 The Impact of Persistence on the Stressor-Strain and Strain-Intentions to Leave Relationships: A Field Examination 170 The Moderating Effects of Self-Esteem on the Work Stress-Employee Health Relationship 184 Coping with Work Stress: The Influence of Individual Differences 196 Job Stress, Coping, and Dissatisfaction in the Health Professions: A Comparison of Nurses and Pharmacists 210 Part Four: An Examination of Burnout 222 The Purpose of Burnout: A Jungian Interpretation 224 Individual, Organizational and Social Determinants of Managerial Burnout: 240 The Relationship between Social Support and Burnout Over Time in Teachers 256 Burnout and Coping Strategies: A Comparative Study of Ward Nurses 266 Measuring Burnout: An Updated Reliability and Convergent Validity Study 280 Part Five: Interventions Aimed at Occupational Strain Reduction 286 The Impact of Stress Counseling at Work 288 Relations Between Exercise and Employee Responses to Work Stressors: A Summary of Two Studies 300 Index 320 Theoretical,Perspectives,Occupational,Stress If one scans the research on work stress, one discovers that attention has been given mainly to the organizational arrangement of work as stressful, less to person variables, and almost none to the stress process, that is, actual stressful transactions that take place between workers and the environment, coping, and changes in stress from moment to moment and encounter to encounter.