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      Coping with stress in the workplace

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          The researchers investigated a simplified process model, a so-called salutogenic approach, of coping with stress in the workplace. Two constructs of salutogenic functioning, namely sense of coherence and locus of control (three dimensions: internal, external locus and autonomy), as well as the stress levels of 240 employees from a parastatal organisation were measured. As expected, individuals with a stronger sense of coherence and a stronger internal locus of control experienced lower levels of stress and vice versa. Nevertheless, in a regression analysis only the sense of coherence and external locus of control variables contributed significantly to variance in the criterion variable stress.

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              Stressful life events, personality, and health: an inquiry into hardiness.

              S C Kobasa (1979)
              Personality was studied as a conditioner of the effects of stressful life events on illness onset. Two groups of middle and upper level executives had comparably high degrees of stressful life events in the previous 3 years, as measured by the Holmes and Rahe Schedule of Recent Life Events. One group (n = 86) suffered high stress without falling ill, whereas the other (n = 75) reported becoming sick after their encounter with stressful life events. Illness was measured by the Wyler, Masuda, and Holmes Seriousness of Illness Survey. Discriminant function analysis, run on half of the subjects in each group and cross-validated on the remaining cases, supported the prediction that high stress/low illness executives show, by comparison with high stress/high illness executives, more hardiness, that is, have a stronger commitment to self, an attitude of vigorousness toward the environment, a sense of meaningfulness, and an internal locus of control.
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                Role: ND
                Journal
                sajip
                SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
                SA j. ind. Psychol.
                AOSIS Publishing (Cape Town )
                0258-5200
                2008
                : 34
                : 1
                : 64-69
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Jopie van Rooyen & Partners South Africa
                [2 ] University of Cape Town South Africa
                Article
                S2071-07632008000100007
                10.4102/sajip.v34i1.421
                4ca0403c-6dc1-497a-ba83-a47298c85fb6

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Self URI (journal page): http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=2071-0763&lng=en
                Categories
                Industrial Relations & Labor
                Psychology
                Psychology, Applied

                Labor & Demographic economics,Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                stress,workplace,salutogenic approach,sense of coherence,parastatal organisation

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