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Employee health, coping and methodologies /

Devoted to the examination of occupational stress, health and well being, this work emphasises on the multi-disciplinary nature of occupational stress. It intends to pull together the streams of research from a variety of disciplines, to capture the significant bodies of work in occupational stress...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Perrewe, Pamela L., Ganster, Daniel C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, ©2006.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Research in occupational stress and well being ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Overview
  • Endocrinological Processes Associated With Job Stress: Catecholamine and Cortisol Responses to Acute and Chronic Stressors
  • Introduction
  • The Role of Catecholamines and Cortisol in the Stress Response
  • Endocrinological Responses to Acute Stressors
  • Laboratory Research
  • Field Research
  • Endocrinological Correlates of Chronic Stressors
  • Catecholamines
  • Workload
  • Job Control
  • Job Strain
  • Social Aspects of the Workplace
  • Other Job Characteristics
  • Strain Reactions as Indicators of Work Stress
  • Cortisol
  • Differences in Cortisol Levels between Occupations and Different Types of Jobs
  • Workload
  • Job Control
  • Job Strain
  • Social Aspects of the Workplace
  • Other Work Characteristics
  • Strain Reactions as Indicators of Work Stress
  • Responsivity to Acute Stressors
  • Recovery
  • Laboratory Research on Catecholamine and Cortisol Recovery
  • Field Research on Catecholamine and Cortisol Recovery
  • Summary and Conclusion
  • Directions for Future Research
  • References
  • Health Consequences of Work-Family Conflict: The Dark Side of the Work-Family Interface
  • Work-Family Conflict
  • Health and Well-Being
  • Relationships of Work-Family Conflict with Health and Well-Being
  • Psychological Health
  • Physical Health
  • A Model of the Health Consequences of Work-Family Conflict
  • Overview of the Model
  • The Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict
  • The Impact of Work-Family Conflict on Negative Emotions and Role Dissatisfaction
  • The Consequences of Negative Emotions and Role Dissatisfaction
  • An Agenda for Future Research
  • Notes
  • References
  • Relationship of the Number and Distribution of Work Hours to Health and Quality-of-Life (QOL) Outcomes
  • Overview
  • Number of Hours Worked
  • The Current Situation
  • Objective Work Hours and Outcomes
  • Study of Total Family Work Hours
  • Distribution of Work Hours
  • The Current Situation
  • Nonstandard Work Schedules and Outcomes
  • Study of Families with Shiftworking Mothers
  • Summary and Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Work Stress, Coping Resources, and Mental Health: A Study of America's Black Elite
  • Introduction
  • Background Literature
  • Work Stress and Mental Health
  • Coping and Mental Health
  • Data
  • Measures and Methods
  • Analytic Strategy
  • Results
  • Descriptives
  • Discussion and Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix: Sector Lists Sampled for Black Elite
  • The Many Roles of Control in a Stressor-Emotion Theory of Counterproductive Work Behavior
  • Basic Emotion and Stress Theory
  • Emotion
  • Stress
  • Control in the General Stress Process
  • Work Stress
  • The Basic Stress Model Applied to Work Stress
  • Control and Work Stress
  • Counterproductive Work Behavior
  • Stressor-Emotion Model of CWB
  • Control and CWB
  • Future Directions
  • References
  • The Assumed Linearity of Organizational Phenomena: Implications for Occupational Stress and Well-Being
  • I.