Occupational stress, job characteristics, coping, and the mental health of nurses
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Objectives This study investigated the relationships between job characteristics and coping in predicting levels of anxiety and depression in nurses. The study was based on current theories of occupational stress, and predictors included job demands, social support, decision authority and skill discretion control, effort, over-commitment, rewards, and ways of coping. It was predicted that job demands, extrinsic effort, over-commitment, and negative coping behaviours would be positively associated with depression and anxiety, and social support, rewards, decision authority, skill discretion control, and positive coping would be negatively associated with depression and anxiety. Methods Participants were 870 nurses, who responded to a bulk mail sent randomly to 4,000 nurses from the south of England. Results The results showed that job demands, extrinsic effort, and over-commitment were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression. Social support, rewards, and skill discretion were negatively associated with mental health problems. Few interactions were found between the variables. Coping behaviours significantly added to the explanation of variance in anxiety and depression outcomes, over and above the use of demand-control-support, and effort-reward factors alone. Conclusion The results from the study demonstrated the importance of coping factors in work-stress research, in accordance with the multi-factorial premise of transactional stress models. It is argued tha…
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Job stress has been associated with mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression, and somatization.
“Moreover, job stress has been associated with mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression, and somatization (Godin et al., 2005; Mark and Smith, 2012), as well as physical health effects such as increased disease risk, weight gain, and poor sleep (Bosma et al., 1998; Kivimäki et al., 2006; Knudsen et al., 2007).”
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- Authors
- Mark, G., & Smith, A. P.
- Affiliations
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, A. P.
- ORCID
- Smith, A. P.
- Venue
- British Journal of Health Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-09-14
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 505-521
- ISSN
- 1359-107X (ISSN-L)
- 2044-8287
- OpenAlex
- W2104750499
- Cited by
- 417
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 9.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Workplace Health and Well-being
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Keywords
- occupational stress, nurses, job characteristics, coping, anxiety, depression, mental health, job demands, social support, reward, decision-making power, skill discretion, effort-reward balance, transactional model of stress and coping, overcommitment
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Mental Disorders, Employment, England, Female, Humans, Job Description, Job Satisfaction, Male, Mental Health, Nurses, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Stress, Psychological, Workload, Workplace
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