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Beyond work and family: A measure of work/nonwork interference and enhancement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Though early research on the work/nonwork interface was broader in scope, most recent research has focused on the interface between work and family. There is a need for an inclusive, validated measure of work/nonwork interference and enhancement that is appropriate for all workers regardless of their marital or family life status. The authors report here on 3 studies in which they develop a theoretically grounded and empirically validated multidimensional, bidirectional measure of work/nonwork interference and enhancement. All scale items refer to work/nonwork, whereas previous measures have mixed work/family and work/nonw...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Fisher, Gwenith G.; Bulger, Carrie A.; Smith, Carlla S. Source Type: journals

Effects of work–family conflict on employees’ well-being: The moderating role of recovery strategies.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Based on the effort-recovery model, this study links work–family conflict (WFC) and family–work conflict (FWC) with the concept of recovery. The authors hypothesize that 2 recovery strategies—psychological detachment from work and verbal expression of emotions—moderate the relationship of these 2 types of conflict with 2 indicators of well-being, namely psychological strain and life satisfaction. For our sample of 128 emergency professionals from Spain, psychological detachment from work moderated the relationship between WFC and psychological strain, and between FWC and life satisfaction. Verbal expression of emot...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Moreno-Jiménez, Bernardo; Mayo, Margarita; Sanz-Vergel, Ana Isabel; Geurts, Sabine; Rodríguez-Muñoz, Alfredo; Garrosa, Eva Source Type: journals

Structure and correlates of spillover from nonwork to work: An examination of nonwork activities, well-being, and work outcomes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Employees today are involved in many different types of activities outside of work, including family, volunteering, leisure, and so on. The purpose of this study was to understand how participation in such nonwork activities can both enrich and interfere with well-being and behavior at work. Four dimensions of nonwork-to-work spillover were examined to better understand this process (i.e., positive emotional, negative emotional, positive behavioral, and negative behavioral). Survey data were collected in 2 waves from 293 staff and faculty members of a large Canadian university (N = 108 matched surveys from both waves). We ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Hecht, Tracy D.; Boies, Kathleen Source Type: journals

The economic impact of work and family issues: Child care satisfaction and financial considerations of employed mothers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article introduces the role of financial considerations into work–family research by considering the costs and benefits of employed mothers’ child care satisfaction. Data from 2 samples offer empirical support for the addition of a fourth factor to a current measure of child care satisfaction so that the measure reflects mothers’ satisfaction not only with caregiver attentiveness, communication, and dependability but also with child care-related financial considerations. This article also discusses relationships between child care satisfaction and work–family conflict and job satisfaction for this population. ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Poms, Laura Wheeler; Botsford, Whitney E.; Kaplan, Seth A.; Buffardi, Louis C.; O’Brien, Alison S. Source Type: journals

Sexual harassment and health among male and female police officers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aims of this study were to investigate whether sexual harassment is related to mental and physical health of both men and women, and to explore the possible moderating effects of gender on the relation between sexual harassment and health. In addition, we investigated whether women were more often bothered by sexual harassment than men, and whether victims who report being bothered by the harassment experience more health problems compared to victims who did not feel bothered. A representative sample of 3,001 policemen and 1,295 policewomen in the Dutch police force filled out an Internet questionnaire. It appeared tha...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: de Haas, Stans; Timmerman, Greetje; Höing, Mechtild Source Type: journals

Bridge employment and retirees’ health: A longitudinal investigation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined the relationship between bridge employment and retirees’ health outcomes (i.e., major diseases, functional limitations, and mental health). We used a nationally representative sample of 12,189 retirees from the first 4 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that compared with full retirement, engaging in bridge employment either in a career field or in a different field was associated with fewer major diseases and functional limitations, whereas engaging in career bridge employment was associated with better mental health. The findings highlight the he...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Zhan, Yujie; Wang, Mo; Liu, Songqi; Shultz, Kenneth S. Source Type: journals

The association of distress and sleeping problems with physicians’ intentions to change profession: The moderating effect of job control.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined whether job control moderated the association between stress indicators (distress and sleeping problems) and intentions to change profession among 2,650 Finnish physicians. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was applied. The authors found that high levels of distress and sleeping problems were associated with higher levels of intentions to change profession, whereas high job control was associated with lower levels of intentions to change profession even after adjusting for the effects of gender, age, and employment sector. In addition, high job control was able to mitigate the positive associa...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Heponiemi, Tarja; Kouvonen, Anne; Vänskä, Jukka; Halila, Hannu; Sinervo, Timo; Kivimäki, Mika; Elovainio, Marko Source Type: journals

Workload, control, and social support effects on serum lipids: A longitudinal study among apparently healthy employed adults.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors investigated the direct and interactive effects of the job demand– control–support (JDC-S) model’s components on subsequent changes in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides (TRI) separately for male and female employees. In contrast to all 14 past studies on these relationships, the authors used a longitudinal design. Study participants (N = 1,137, 66% men) were all apparently healthy employees who underwent a routine health check at 2 points in time (Time 1 and Time 2) about 22 months apart. In these analyses, the authors controlled for the Time 1 le...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 22, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Shirom, Arie; Melamed, Samuel; Rogowski, Ori; Shapira, Itzhak; Berliner, Shlomo Source Type: journals

Do the opportunities for learning and personal development lead to happiness? It depends on work-family conciliation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study shows how the perceptions of opportunities for learning and personal development predict five dimensions of affective well-being (AWB: pleasure, comfort, placidity, enthusiasm, and vigor), and how this relationship is moderated by the perceptions of work-family conciliation. A sample comprising 404 individuals was collected. The findings show the following: (1) both the perceptions of opportunities for learning and personal development and perceptions of work-family conciliation predict AWB, the happier individuals being those who have high perceptions on both variables; (2) both variables interact in predicting ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rego, Arménio; Pina e Cunha, Miguel Source Type: journals

Exploring relationships among anger, perceived organizational support, and workplace outcomes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examines anger within a perceived organizational support (POS) theory framework. Using structural equation modeling, the authors explored relationships among POS, anger, and workplace outcomes in a sample of 1,136 employees in 21 stores of a U.S. retail organization. At both individual and store levels, low POS was directly associated with greater anger. At the individual level, anger partially mediated relationships among low POS and turnover intentions, absences, and accidents on the job. Anger had direct and indirect effects on alcohol consumption and health-related risk taking. At the store level, ang...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: O’Neill, Olivia A.; Vandenberg, Robert J.; DeJoy, David M.; Wilson, Mark G. Source Type: journals

Distributive justice, procedural justice, and psychological distress: The moderating effect of coworker support and work autonomy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Recent research has demonstrated that the perception of injustice at work may increase psychological health-related problems. The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating effect of coworker support and work autonomy on the relationships between both distributive and procedural justice and psychological distress. Results, on the basis of responses to questionnaires given to 248 prison employees, show that coworker support moderates the relationships between both forms of justice and psychological distress. Specifically, these relationships are weakened when employees benefit from a high level of coworker support. ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rousseau, Vincent; Salek, Salwa; Aubé, Caroline; Morin, Estelle M. Source Type: journals

How do stressors lead to burnout? The mediating role of motivation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We extend existing stressor-strain theoretical models by including intrinsic motivation as a mediator between well-established job stressors and burnout. Though the link between situational stressors and burnout is well established, little is known about mechanisms behind this relationship. With a sample of 284 self-employed individuals, we examined motivation as a mediator to explain why situational factors impact 3 dimensions of burnout: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy. Motivation is an explanatory mechanism that drives human behavior and thought, and thus may have an impact on important well-being outcome...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rubino, Cristina; Luksyte, Aleksandra; Perry, Sara Jansen; Volpone, Sabrina D. Source Type: journals

Patterns and profiles of response to incivility in the workplace.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors draw on stress and coping theory to understand patterns of individual response to workplace incivility. According to data from 3 employee samples, incivility tended to trigger mildly negative appraisals, which could theoretically differentiate incivility from other categories of antisocial work behavior. Employees experiencing frequent and varied incivility from powerful instigators generally appraised their uncivil encounters more negatively. They responded to this stressor using a multifaceted array of coping strategies, which entailed support seeking, detachment, minimization, prosocial conflict avoidance, a...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Cortina, Lilia M.; Magley, Vicki J. Source Type: journals

Stress and counterproductive work behavior: Multiple relationships between demands, control, and soldier indiscipline over time.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive Resource Theory (CRT) suggests that under high levels of stress, employees are more prone to committing indiscipline. As few studies have examined this relationship over time, the authors conducted a six-wave longitudinal study examining the relationship of soldiers’ indiscipline with work demands and control. The study included archival data collected quarterly over 2 years from 1,701 soldiers representing 10 units in garrison (Germany and Italy), in training rotations (Grafenwoehr, Germany), and on peacekeeping deployments (Kosovo, Kuwait). No main effects were found for work overload, and the findings for th...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tucker, Jennifer S.; Sinclair, Robert R.; Mohr, Cynthia D.; Thomas, Jeffrey L.; Salvi, Angela D.; Adler, Amy B. Source Type: journals

Feeling recovered and thinking about the good sides of one’s work.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Consistent with a positive psychology perspective, this longitudinal study investigated relations between positive and negative nonwork experiences (i.e., feeling recovered, thinking about the positive and negative aspects of one’s work during leisure time) with different job performance dimensions. In total, 358 employees working with persons with special needs responded to two questionnaires at an interval of 6 months. Results from hierarchical regression analyses showed that feeling recovered during leisure time predicted an increase in task performance after 6 months. This relation was mediated by occupational self-e...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Binnewies, Carmen; Sonnentag, Sabine; Mojza, Eva J. Source Type: journals

An examination of the relationship between workload and fatigue within and across consecutive days of work: Is the relationship static or dynamic?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cognitive–energetical theories of information processing were used to generate predictions regarding the relationship between perceived workload and fatigue within and across consecutive days of work. Repeated measures were taken aboard a naval vessel from a sample of 20 Navy patrol vessel crew members during nonroutine and routine patrols. The hypotheses were tested through growth curve modeling. There was a nonmonotonic relationship between workload and fatigue in the routine patrol; moderate workload was associated with the lowest fatigue. The relationship between workload and fatigue changed over consecutive days in ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Grech, Michelle R.; Neal, Andrew; Yeo, Gillian; Smith, Simon; Humphreys, Michael Source Type: journals

Impact of enhanced resources on anticipatory stress and adjustment to new information technology: A field-experimental test of conservation of resources theory.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An intervention based on conservation of resources theory was conducted in an organization installing new information technology (IT) to enhance participants’ psychological resources and thereby reduce anticipated stress and facilitate adjustment to the new IT. Before installation, 218 IT users in 25 units participated in 5 days of technical training; only the randomly assigned experimental group also participated in a “resource workshop.” All participants filled out questionnaires before the workshop, 2 weeks later, and 2 months after the IT installation. ANOVA detected a significant increase in users’ means effic...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - July 9, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Chen, Shoshi; Westman, Mina; Eden, Dov Source Type: journals

Linking goal progress to subjective well-being at work: The moderating role of goal-related self-efficacy and attainability.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although goal progress is often hypothesized to be positively linked to well-being, existing research points to an inconsistent relationship and suggests that potential moderators need to be examined. This longitudinal study investigated whether 2 aspects of goal cognition—goal attainability and self-efficacy—influence the relationship between goal progress and well-being (viz., job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion) in a sample of 172 nurses. Work goal progress was not directly associated with well-being. Rather, the link between goal progress and well-being was moderated by goal cognition. Individuals who started...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Pomaki, Georgia; Karoly, Paul; Maes, Stan Source Type: journals

Job insecurity and employability in fixed-term contractors, agency workers, and permanent workers: Associations with job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigates how job insecurity and employability relate to job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment in permanent workers, fixed-term contract workers, and temporary agency workers. The authors hypothesized that (a) job insecurity relates negatively to job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment, and this relationship is strongest in permanent workers and weakest in temporary agency workers; and that (b) employability relates positively to job satisfaction and negatively to affective organizational commitment, and this relationship is strongest in temporary agency workers and weakest...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: De Cuyper, Nele; Notelaers, Guy; De Witte, Hans Source Type: journals

Antecedents and outcomes of a fourfold taxonomy of work-family balance in Chinese employed parents.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study provided validity evidence for a fourfold taxonomy of work-family balance that comprises direction of influence (work to family vs. family to work) and types of effect (work-family conflict vs. work-family facilitation). Data were collected from 189 employed parents in China. The results obtained from a confirmatory factor analysis supported the factorial validity of the fourfold taxonomy of work-family balance with a Chinese sample. Child care responsibilities, working hours, monthly salary, and organizational family-friendly policy were positively related to the conflict component of work-family balance; wherea...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Lu, Jia-Fang; Siu, Oi-Ling; Spector, Paul E.; Shi, Kan Source Type: journals

Job stressors and the pursuit of sport activities: A day-level perspective.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article addresses the relation between day-specific experiences of job stressors and the pursuit of off-job activities. Following the limited-resources model of self-regulation, the authors proposed that job stressors and long working hours are negatively related to pursuit of sport activities after work because, after stressful days, employees have no resources left for initiating and persisting in effortful behaviors such as sport. Routines for off-job activities were hypothesized to be positively related to the pursuit of sport activities after work. Seventy-eight police employees completed a daily survey over 5 wo...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sonnentag, Sabine; Jelden, Stefanie Source Type: journals

Does the need to belong moderate the relationship between perceptions of spirit of camaraderie and employees' happiness?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors show how the perceptions of spirit of camaraderie explain 5 dimensions of employees' affective well-being and how this relationship is moderated by the employees' need to belong. The sample comprised 296 individuals working in 78 organizations. The authors found the following: (a) Perceptions of spirit of camaraderie predict unique variance of all affective well-being dimensions; (b) the need to belong moderates the relationship between perceptions of spirit of camaraderie and affective well-being in such a way that employees with a strong need to belong are more sensitive or reactive to perceptions of spirit o...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rego, Arménio; Souto, Solange; Cunha, Miguel Pina e Source Type: journals

The moderating role of safety-specific trust on the relation between safety-specific leadership and safety citizenship behaviors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The authors examined whether safety-specific trust moderates or mediates the relationship between safety-specific transformational leadership and subordinates' safety citizenship behavior. Data from 139 subordinate-supervisor dyads were collected from the United Kingdom construction industry and analyzed using hierarchical regression models. Results showed that safety-specific trust moderated rather than mediated the effects of safety-specific transformational leaders on subordinates' behavior. Specifically, in conditions of high and moderate safety-specific trust, leaders had a significant effect on subordinates' safety c...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Conchie, Stacey M.; Donald, Ian J. Source Type: journals

Individual reactions to high involvement work processes: Investigating the role of empowerment and perceived organizational support.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study sought to understand how high involvement work processes (HIWP) are processed at the employee level. Using structural equation modeling techniques, the authors tested and supported a model in which psychological empowerment mediated the effects of HIWP on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job performance, and job stress. Furthermore, perceived organizational support (POS) was hypothesized to moderate the relationships between empowerment and these outcomes. With exception for the empowerment-job satisfaction association, support was found for our predictions. Future directions for research and the pra...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Butts, Marcus M.; Vandenberg, Robert J.; DeJoy, David M.; Schaffer, Bryan S.; Wilson, Mark G. Source Type: journals

Trait hostility and ambulatory blood pressure among traffic enforcement agents: The effects of stressful social interactions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the hypothesis that trait hostility is associated with heightened cardiovascular reactivity to potentially stressful social interactions but not to nonsocial activities in the workplace. Participants were 73 (39 women) New York City traffic enforcement agents (TEAs) who patrol the streets and issue summonses for vehicular and parking violations. During their patrols, TEAs face potentially stressful interactions when they encounter motorists and pedestrians who may be angry about receiving summonses. Mood and ambulatory blood pressure were initially measured when TEAs were recently hired and attendin...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Brondolo, Elizabeth; Grantham, Kamau Imarogbe; Karlin, William; Taravella, Joseph; Mencía-Ripley, Aida; Schwartz, Joseph E.; Pickering, Thomas G.; Contrada, Richard J. Source Type: journals

Effects on sleep-related problems and self-reported health after a change of shift schedule.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study prospectively examined the effects of a change of shift schedule from a fast forward-rotating schedule to a slowly backward-rotating one. The initial schedule had a forward rotation from mornings to afternoons to nights over 6 consecutive days, with 2 days on each shift followed by 4 days off before the next iteration of the cycle, whereas the new schedule had a slower backward rotation from mornings to nights to afternoons, with 3 days on a given shift followed by 3 days off before the next shift. Shift workers (n = 118) were compared with a reference group of daytime workers (n = 67) from the same manufacturin...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - March 30, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Karlson, Björn; Eek, Frida; Ørbæk, Palle; Österberg, Kai Source Type: journals

Turnover intention and emotional exhaustion "at the top": Adapting the job demands-resources model to leaders of addiction treatment organizations.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, the authors adapted the JD-R framework to analyze data collected from a sample of 410 leaders of addiction treatment organizations. The authors considered whether two job demands (performance demands and centralization) and two job resources (innovation in decision making and long-range strategic planning) were associated with emotional exhaustion and turnover intention. The authors also examined whether emotional exhaustion fully or partially mediated the associations between the job-related measures and turnover intention. The results supported the partially mediated model. Both job demands were positively...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Knudsen, Hannah K.; Ducharme, Lori J.; Roman, Paul M. Source Type: journals

The moderating effects of personal reputation on accountability-strain relationships.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although felt accountability has predicted positive outcomes in some studies, it has demonstrated anxiety-provoking properties in others. This inconsistency has led researchers to search for moderating variables that explain why felt accountability promotes or impedes favorable outcomes. Building on these studies, the authors examine the moderating effects of personal reputation on the felt accountability-strain relationship. As hypothesized, the results indicate that a positive personal reputation ameliorated the strain reactions caused by felt accountability. In particular, as felt accountability increased, individuals w...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Laird, Mary Dana; Perryman, Alexa A.; Hochwarter, Wayne A.; Ferris, Gerald R.; Zinko, Robert Source Type: journals

Correction to Petterson et al. (2005).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Reports an error in "Are Trends in Work and Health Conditions Interrelated? A Study of Swedish Hospital Employees in the 1990s" by Inga-Lill Petterson, Anna Hertting, Lars Hagberg and Töres Theorell (Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2005[Apr], Vol 10[2], 110-120). This particular study was based upon a unique database (the Springlife database), with repeated questionnaire self-reports from hospital staff in the Örebro Regional Hospital in Sweden regarding work environment and mental health in the years 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001. The Springlife database was referred to in the text and references of the ar...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Petterson, Inga-Lill; Hertting, Anna; Hagberg, Lars; Theorell, Töres Source Type: journals

Investigating individual differences among targets of workplace incivility.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study focused on individual differences in Big Five traits among targets of workplace incivility. The authors hypothesized a negative relation between agreeableness and incivility, a positive relation between neuroticism and incivility, and a negative relation between extraversion and incivility. The authors also hypothesized that provocative target behavior is the mediating force that drives these relations. Multisource data from a diverse sample of employees and their coworkers indicate that individuals low in agreeableness and those high in neuroticism experience more incivility than their counterparts. The ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Milam, Alex C.; Spitzmueller, Christiane; Penney, Lisa M. Source Type: journals

Customer incivility as a social stressor: The role of race and racial identity for service employees.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Experiencing frequent incivility from customers is a noted social stressor linked with job burnout. Race (as a surface-level characteristic and as a deep-level identity) is proposed to explain emotional exhaustion, the primary burnout dimension, for service employees. The authors did not find that "microaggressions" were more likely toward racial minorities, nor any difference in job-related exhaustion between racial minority (primarily African American) and nonminority (White) retail employees. However, the centrality of minority employees' racial identity strengthened the association of customer incivility with emotional...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Kern, Julie H.; Grandey, Alicia A. Source Type: journals

Emotional anguish at work: The mediating role of perceived rejection on workgroup mistreatment and affective outcomes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, the authors pay particular attention to mistreatment directed toward an organizational member from fellow workgroup members. The study contributes to the growing body of literature that examines the mistreatment of employees in the workplace. The authors propose that mistreatment by the workgroup would contribute to feelings of rejection, over and above mistreatment by the supervisor. In addition, the authors tested the mediating role of perceived rejection between workgroup mistreatment and affective outcomes such as depression and organization-based self-esteem. Part-time working participants (N = 142) too...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Penhaligon, Nikki L.; Louis, Winnifred R.; Restubog, Simon Lloyd D. Source Type: journals

Workaholism and relationship quality: A spillover-crossover perspective.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study of 168 dual-earner couples examined the relationship between workaholism and relationship satisfaction. More specifically, on the basis of the literature, it was hypothesized that workaholism is positively related to work-family conflict. In addition, the authors predicted that workaholism is related to reduced support provided to the partner, through work-family conflict, and that individuals who receive considerable support from their partners are more satisfied with their relationship. Finally, the authors hypothesized direct crossover of relationship satisfaction between partners. The results of structural e...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Bakker, Arnold B.; Demerouti, Evangelia; Burke, Ronald Source Type: journals

Reacting to and recovering from a stressful situation: The negative affectivity-physiological arousal relationship.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the associations between NA and physiological outcomes of heart rate, skin temperature, and muscle tension. The authors hypothesized that when individuals are in a stressful situation, persons high in NA experience more heightened physiological arousal than those low in NA. After personality and demographic data were collected, 230 individuals participated in a stressful intervention. Individuals high in NA experienced a significantly greater rate of increase in electromyogram during the stress intervention and a lesser rate of decrease in electromyogram after the stressful event than those low in NA. I...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Zellars, Kelly L.; Meurs, James A.; Perrewé, Pamela L.; Kacmar, Charles J.; Rossi, Ana Maria Source Type: journals

Occupational risk perception, safety training, and injury prevention: Testing a model in the Italian printing industry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined occupational risk perception in relation to safety training and injuries. In a printing industry, 350 workers from 6 departments completed a survey. Data analysis showed significant differences in risk perceptions among departments. Differences in risk perception reflected the type of work and the injury incidents in the departments. A structural equation analysis confirmed a model of risk perception on the basis of employees' evaluation of the prevalence and lethalness of hazards as well as the control over hazards they gain from training. The number of injuries sustained was positively related to the ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - January 12, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Leiter, Michael P.; Zanaletti, William; Argentero, Piergiorgio Source Type: journals

Barriers to physical activity in an on-site corporate fitness center.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many corporations provide employees the option of participating in on-site fitness centers, but utilization rates are low. Perceived barriers to physical activity have been established as important correlates of physical activity, and recent research indicates that barriers may vary across settings. Work-site fitness centers may present unique barriers to participation, but there are currently no standardized measures that assess such barriers. Eighty-eight employees of a midwestern corporation completed a survey designed to identify and evaluate the extent to which barriers influence participation in an on-site corporate ...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Schwetschenau, Heather M.; O'Brien, William H.; Cunningham, Christopher J. L.; Jex, Steve M. Source Type: journals

Use of both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study job stress in different gender and occupational groups.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, both qualitative and quantitative data indicated interaction effects between gender and occupation in predicting job stressors and strains. Finally, there was a stronger relation between interpersonal conflicts and negative emotions/job satisfaction were stronger for faculty than for staff. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Liu, Cong; Spector, Paul E.; Shi, Lin Source Type: journals

Working in the sky: A diary study on work engagement among flight attendants.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aims to gain insight in the motivational process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model by examining whether daily fluctuations in colleague support (i.e., a typical job resource) predict day-levels of job performance through self-efficacy and work engagement. Forty-four flight attendants filled in a questionnaire and a diary booklet before and after consecutive flights to three intercontinental destinations. Results of multilevel analyses revealed that colleague support had unique positive effects on self-efficacy and work engagement. Self-efficacy did not mediate the relationship between support and engagem...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Xanthopoulou, Despoina; Bakker, Arnold B.; Heuven, Ellen; Demerouti, Evangelia; Schaufeli, Wilmar B. Source Type: journals

Do prospective workday appraisals influence end-of-workday affect and self-monitored performance?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current study uses self-regulation as the basis for a model that examines the influence of three types of workday appraisals (resource, task, and response). At the beginning of their workday, a total of 170 faculty, graduate students, and staff of a university completed appraisal ratings of their anticipated workday tasks, resources, and responses. At the end of the workday, they completed assessments of positive and negative affect and self-monitored performance. Results suggested that resource appraisals of control and skills were predictive of task appraisals of difficulty, threat, and ambiguity. Task appraisals wer...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Grawitch, Matthew J.; Granda, Stephanie E.; Barber, Larissa K. Source Type: journals

Perceived organizational support for safety and employee safety voice: The mediating role of coworker support for safety.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study adds to the employee voice literature by evaluating the important role that coworkers can play in encouraging others to speak out about safety issues. Implications for research and practice related to change-oriented safety communication are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tucker, Sean; Chmiel, Nik; Turner, Nick; Hershcovis, M. Sandy; Stride, Chris B. Source Type: journals

Work strain, health, and absenteeism: A meta-analysis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Work strain has been argued to be a significant cause of absenteeism in the popular and academic press. However, definitive evidence for associations between absenteeism and strain is currently lacking. A theory focused meta-analysis of 275 effects from 153 studies revealed positive but small associations between absenteeism and work strain, psychological illness, and physical illness. Structural equation modeling results suggested that the strain-absence connection may be mediated by psychological and physical symptoms. Little support was received for the purported volitional distinction between absence frequency and time...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - October 16, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Darr, Wendy; Johns, Gary Source Type: journals

The moderating role of goal orientation in the workload-frustration relationship.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Goal orientation was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between quantitative workload and frustration. Based on data from 460 graduate students, two forms of goal orientation moderated this relationship. Specifically, it was found that workload was positively related to frustration for people with high levels of avoiding goal orientation, but not for those with low levels of avoiding goal orientation. In addition, it was found that the positive effect of workload on frustration was weaker for people with high levels of mastery goal orientation than for those with low levels of mastery goal orientation. Both theoreti...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Whinghter, L. Jean; Cunningham, Christopher J. L.; Wang, Mo; Burnfield, Jennifer L. Source Type: journals

The interactive effects of proactive personality and work-family interference on well-being.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Proactive personality was expected to moderate the relationship between controllable work and nonwork stressors (e.g., time-based work-family interference) and job/life satisfaction. Moderated multiple regression analyses of survey data from a sample of professionals (N=133) revealed a significant interaction between time-based family interfering-with work and proactive personality predicting life satisfaction and several main effects offering partial support for the hypothesized relationships (a (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Cunningham, Christopher J. L.; De La Rosa, Gabriel M. Source Type: journals

Does personal initiative training work as a stress management intervention?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An experimental trial is reported that compares 2 stress management intervention programs and a waitlist control. Both programs involved training in problem-focused strategies of identifying and changing the sources of stress. One of the programs contained additional content on how to display more personal initiative (PI). Both programs involved 2 sessions held 1 week apart, each session lasting 3-4 hr. Strain was measured before training and at 7 and 13 weeks after the initial session. Results show that both programs were effective at reducing strain, whereas the waitlist group showed no change in strain. The PI program i...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Searle, Ben J. Source Type: journals

The double meaning of control: Three-way interactions between internal resources, job control, and stressors at work.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Job Demand-Control model postulates that job control attenuates the effects of job demands on health and well-being. Support for this interactive effect is rather weak. Conceivably, it holds only when there is a match between job control and individual characteristics that relate to exercising control options, such as locus of control, or self-efficacy. This three-way interaction was tested in a sample of 96 service employees, with affective strain and musculoskeletal pain as dependent variables. As hypothesized, job control attenuated the effects of stressors only for people with an internal locus of control. For peop...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Meier, Laurenz L.; Semmer, Norbert K.; Elfering, Achim; Jacobshagen, Nicola Source Type: journals

Too stressed out to participate? Examining the relation between stressors and survey response behavior.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study expands on previously proposed survey response and nonresponse frameworks by integrating the job stress literature. The authors investigated whether overload, role ambiguity, and role conflict experienced by individuals relate to survey response behavior. Using organizational citizenship behavior theory and social exchange theory as theoretical frameworks, the authors proposed that nonrespondents experience higher levels of stressors than respondents. Data collected in a longitudinal field study partially supported the hypotheses. As hypothesized, overload increased the likelihood of nonresponse. Contrary to hyp...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Barr, Christopher D.; Spitzmüller, Christiane; Stuebing, Karla K. Source Type: journals

Individual and group cognitive-behavioral treatment for work-related stress complaints and sickness absence: A randomized controlled trial.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, this study adds to the evidence that CBT-based interventions as currently practiced are not successful in treating patients with clinical levels of work-related stress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: De Vente, Wieke; Kamphuis, Jan H.; Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.; Blonk, Roland W. B. Source Type: journals

Workplace health friendliness: A cross level model for predicting workers' health.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two separate studies conceptualized the health friendliness of a workplace, the first qualitatively through content analysis of interviews with 69 nursing superiors about the means employed by their workplace to promote staff health. Findings supported the conceptualization of workplace health friendliness, which was further validated against the staff's health indicators. The second study tested a model explaining the cross-level effects of workplace health-friendliness initiatives on workers' health. The model depicted workers as rational human beings calculating costs/benefits in deciding whether to commit to those init...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Drach-Zahavy, Anat Source Type: journals

Work-family characteristics as determinants of sickness absence: A large-scale cohort study of three occupational grades.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined the previously unexplored occupational grade-specific relationships of domestic responsibilities, the age of children, and work-family spillover, with registered sickness absence (>3 days' sick leave episodes, a mean follow-up of 17 months; n = 18,366 municipal employees; 76% women). The results showed that negative spillover from work into family life predicted a heightened rate of sickness absence spells among both women and men in all occupational categories (except upper white-collar men), but especially among blue-collar and lower white-collar employees. Furthermore, among all white-collar employee...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - May 1, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Väänänen, Ari; Kumpulainen, Riitta; Kevin, May V.; Ala-Mursula, Leena; Kouvonen, Anne; Kivimäki, Mika; Toivanen, Minna; Linna, Anne; Vahtera, Jussi Source Type: journals

The crossover of perceived health between spouses.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current study examined the crossover of perceived health between spouses and the mediating roles of self-esteem and undermining in this process. Data were collected from a sample of 2,108 couples from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring survey. Using structural equation modeling, the authors tested a crossover model that incorporated three mechanisms: bidirectional crossover of perceived health between spouses, common stressors (income), and indirect mediated effects (social undermining). The model showed an acceptable fit to the data and provided support for all three-crossover mechanisms. Furthermore, self-esteem med...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - May 1, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Westman, Mina; Keinan, Giora; Roziner, Ilan; Benyamini, Yael Source Type: journals