Modelling the Stress-Strain Relationship in Work Settings

by Koslowsky,Meni

• ISBN13: 9780415153201
• ISBN10: 0415153204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents for the first time a way of modelling stress-strain that will enable researchers to both assess examples from the literature and correctly define and use the model in their own investigations in the workplace.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	ix
1 Introduction	1	(7)
The stress setting	2	(6)
2 Theories of organizational stress	8	(22)
The stress literature	8	(1)
Specific models of the stress-strain process	9	(11)
The present model	20	(10)
3 Stressors	30	(19)
Some classification rules	30	(2)
Individual stressors	32	(11)
Group and organizational stressors	43	(4)
Stress as a positive variable	47	(2)
4 Extra-organizational stressors	49	(16)
Expectations, values, and stressors in the culture	50	(2)
Environmental stressors	52	(9)
Home and family stressors	61	(4)
5 Stress assessment instruments	65	(13)
Some specific scales	65	(13)
6 Psychological and physiological reactions	78	(20)
Attitudes as psychological strain	80	(10)
Physiological strain responses	90	(8)
7 Behavioral consequences of stress	98	(13)
Behavior as an ultimate outcome	98	(2)
Stress and withdrawal	100	(11)
8 Mediators and moderators	111	(38)
The distinction between mediators and moderators	111	(3)
Mediators in a stress model	114	(22)
Moderators	136	(11)
Implications	147	(2)
9 Modeling the stress-strain process	149	(28)
Regression techniques	149	(7)
Structural equation modeling	156	(21)
10 General methodological issues	177	(12)
Identifying the study variables	177	(5)
Confounding variables	182	(5)
Suggestions for improving stress methodology	187	(2)
References	189	(24)
Index	213