Reference EntryDOI
Stress in organizations
Sabine Sonnentag,Michael Frese +1 more
- pp 453-491
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors present theories on organizational stress and review evidence from empirical research, focusing on observational and longitudinal studies that show that stressors at work have a detrimental effect on health and well-being.Abstract:
This chapter summarizes research on stress in organizations. We give an introduction into the concepts of stress, stressors, and stress reactions. We present theories on organizational stress and review evidence from empirical research. Particularly, we focus on observational and longitudinal studies that show that stressors at work have a detrimental effect on health and well-being. We discuss resources such as control at work, social support, coping styles, and self-esteem as potential moderators in the stress process. We describe findings from laboratory and field studies on stress and its effect on performance. We address the question whether stress is related to other organizational variables, including organizational commitment, absenteeism, and turnover. We review research findings on stress interventions and discuss stressor reduction, increase of resource, strain reduction, and life-style change as major stress intervention approaches. We suggest directions for future research for increasing knowledge about stress in organizations.
Keywords:
health;
longitudinal research;
performance;
resources;
stress;
stress intervention;
well-beingread more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Social Psychology of Organizations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Differential challenge stressor-hindrance stressor relationships with job attitudes, turnover intentions, turnover, and withdrawal behavior: A meta-analysis
TL;DR: A 2-dimensional work stressor framework is used to explain inconsistencies in past research with respect to stressor relationships with retention-related criteria and suggested that the differential relationships between challenge stressor and hindrance stressors and the more distal criteria were due, in part, to the mediating effects of job attitudes.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work.
Sabine Sonnentag,Charlotte Fritz +1 more
TL;DR: Self-report measures for assessing how individuals unwind and recuperate from work during leisure time showed that four recovery experiences can be differentiated: psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery, and control.
Journal ArticleDOI
Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework
Sabine Sonnentag,Charlotte Fritz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical evidence on psychological detachment from work during non-work time, which refers to refraining from job-related activities and thoughts during nonwork time; it implies to mentally disengage from one's job while being away from work.
Journal ArticleDOI
Switching off mentally: predictors and consequences of psychological detachment from work during off-job time.
Sabine Sonnentag,Ute-Vera Bayer +1 more
TL;DR: Multilevel analysis showed that workload was negatively related to psychological detachment from work during evening hours and the negative relationship between psychological detachment and fatigue was particularly strong on days with high time pressure.
References
More filters
Book
Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control
TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
Book
Stress, appraisal, and coping
Richard S. Lazarus,Susan Folkman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
Book
Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions
Leona S. Aiken,Stephen G. West +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of predictor scaling on the coefficients of regression equations are investigated. But, they focus mainly on the effect of predictors scaling on coefficients of regressions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Journal ArticleDOI
Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
Sheldon Cohen,Thomas Ashby Wills +1 more
TL;DR: There is evidence consistent with both main effect and main effect models for social support, but each represents a different process through which social support may affect well-being.