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The importance of context specificity in work stress research: A test of the Demand-Control-Support model in academics
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In this paper, the authors examined how the Demand Control-Support (D-C-S) model applied in a well-defined occupational group and found that it accounted for 26, 6, and 8% of the variance in job satisfaction, psychological distress and burnout, respectively, among 166 academics in a UK university.Abstract:
The Demand-Control (D-C) (Karasek, 1979) and the Demand-Control-Support (D-C-S) (Johnson & Hall, 1988; Johnson, Hall, & Theorell, 1989; Karasek & Theorell, 1990) models of work stress suggest that jobs with high demands and low control (and low support) are stressful. In line with the support in the literature for context-specificity in occupational stress research (Sparks & Cooper, 1999) and the limited and even contradictory support for interaction effects, the main aim of the present study was to examine how the D-C-S model applied in a well-defined occupational group. Using hierarchical regression analyses, and controlling for negative affect, the D-C-S model accounted for 26%, 6%, and 8% of the variance in job satisfaction, psychological distress and burnout, respectively, among 166 academics in a UK university. No two-way or three-way interactive effects were evident, but additive effects of job demands and control on psychological well-being and of job demands and support on both burnout and job satisfaction were shown, corroborating research showing that high job strain is linked to ill health and job dissatisfaction in this homogenous occupational sample. It is recommended that, in future, research includes more variables that are specific to a particular occupation.read more
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Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students
Katia Levecque,Frederik Anseel,Frederik Anseel,Alain De Beuckelaer,Alain De Beuckelaer,Alain De Beuckelaer,Johan Van der Heyden,Lydia Gisle +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the prevalence of mental health problems in a representative sample of PhD students in Flanders, Belgium (N = 3659) and compare them to three other samples: (1) highly educated in the general population, (2), highly educated employees, and (3) higher education students.
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Perceived organizational support, organizational commitment and psychological well-being: A longitudinal study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contribution of perceived organizational support and four mindsets of organizational commitment (affective, normative, perceived sacrifice associated with leaving and perceived lack of alternatives) to employee psychological well-being.
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Burnout in university teaching staff: a systematic literature review
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TL;DR: A systematic literature review was conducted to evaluate the extent of burnout for university teaching staff and specifically to reveal predictive variables, which may explain this experience in this understudied occupational group.
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Demands, control, and support: A meta-analytic review of work characteristics interrelationships.
TL;DR: The results suggest that job control and both sources of social support should be treated independently, as opposed to indicators of a shared latent factor, in terms of their prediction of well-being and job demands.
A Longitudinal Test of the Job Demands-Resources Model among
TL;DR: A longitudinal test of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model of work stress and engagement was conducted in a sample of Australian university academics (N= 296) as mentioned in this paper, with the aim of determining how well job demands and job resources (procedural fairness, job autonomy) would predict psychological strain and organisational commitment over a three-year period.
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