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.
Contributors
Foreword
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS RESEARCH
Psychological Stress in the Workplace
Richard S. Lazarus
Psychological Stress and the Workplace: A Brief Comment on Lazarus’ Outlook
Arthur P. Brief and Jennifer M. George
An Examination of the Transaction Approach in Occupational Stress Research
James R. Harris
Work Stress Conceived and Researched Transactionally
David F. Barone
Unstructured Perceptions of Work-Related Stress: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
Vincent Di Salvo, Charles Lubbers, Ana M. Rossi, and James Lewis
Measuring Occupational Stress: The Job Stress Survey
Charles D. Spielberger and Eric C. Reheiser
PART TWO: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS: MODEL TESTING
Antecedents and Organizational Effectiveness Outcomes of Employee Stress and Health
William H. Hendrix, Timothy P. Summers, Terry L. Leap, and Robert P. Steel
Coping with Stressful Life Events: An Empirical Analysis
Rabi S. Bhagat, Stephen M Allie, and David L. Ford, Jr.
A field Study of Some Antecedents and Consequences of Felt Job Stress
Timothy P. Summers, Thomas A. DeCotiis, and Angelo S. DeNisi
Relationship of Work and Family Stressors to Psychological Distress: The Independent Moderating Influence of Social Support, Mastery, Active Coping, and Self-Focused Attention
Michael R. Frone, Marcia Russell, and M. Lynne Cooper
PART THREE: THE ROLES OF COPING AND DISPOSITIONAL INFLUENCES IN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS RESEARCH
The Impact of Persistence on the Stressor-Strain and Strain-Intentions to Leave Relationships: A Field Examination
Wayne A. Hochwarter, Pamela L. Perrewé, and Russell L. Kent
The Moderating Effects of Seld-Esteem on the Work Stress—Employee Health Relationship
Daniel C. Ganster and John Schaubroeck
Coping with Work Stress: The Influence of Individual Differences
Stephen J. Havlovic and John P. Kennan
Job Stress, Coping, and Dissatisfaction in the Health Professions: A Comparison of Nurses and Pharmacists
Alan P. Wolfgang
PART FOUR: AN EXAMINATION OF BURNOUT
The Purpose of Burnout: A Jungian Interpretation
Anna-Maria Garden
Individual, Organizational and Social Determinants of Managerial Burnout: Theoretical and Empirical Update
Shimon L. Dolan
The Relationship between Social Support and Burnout Over Time in Teachers
Esther R. Greenglass, Lisa Fiksenbaum, and Ronald J. Burke
Burnout Coping Strategies: A Comparative Study of Ward Nurses
E. Dara Ogus
Measuring Burnout: An Update Reliability and Convergent Validity Study
Kevin Corcoran
PART FIVE: INTREVENTIONS AIMED AT OCCUPATIONL STRAIN REDUCTION
The Impact of Stress Counseling at Work
Cary L. Cooper and Golnaz Sadri
Relations Between Exercise and Employee Responses to Work Stressors: A Summary of Two Studies
Steve M. Jex, Paul E. Spector, David M. Gudanowski, and Ronald A. Newman
Index
Biography
After receiving a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, Rick Crandall taught psychology, business, and research at the University of Mic higan, the University of Illinois, and Tex,is Christian University. Now publisher and founding editor of the journal of Social Behavior and Personality and editor and marketing columnist for Executive Edge (a middle management newsletter), he also teaches popular seminars on business, marketing, and entrepreneurship. The managing editor of a number of academic books including Work and Family, lob Stress, and Type‘ A Behavior, Dr. Crandall's latest popular book is Marketing Your Services for People Who Hate to Sell. Dr. Pamela L. Perrewe is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Management in the College of Business at Florida State1 University. Her primary research h interests are in work and non-work stress, motivation, and personality. A nationally known authority on occupational stress, Dr. Perrewe has published over thirty journal articles in the organizational behavior field. She has recently co-authored a textbook entitled Strategic Human Resource Management.
