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The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers
Bibliography: pages 105-116.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17172 The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers Anstey, G M Strümpfer, D J W Industrial and Organizational Psychology Job stress - South Africa Working class - South Africa - Job stress Bibliography: pages 105-116. The present study investigated the relationships between work stressors, three moderator variables, and a variety of affective, behavioural and health outcomes. More specifically, it was hypothesized that the work stressors would be significantly associated with adverse affective, behavioural and health outcomes. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that personal and situational variables, in the form of the Sense of Coherence (Antonovsky, 1979, 1987), Job Decision Latitude (Karasek, 1979), and Participation in Decision Making, would moderate the relationships between work stressors and a variety of outcomes. The data were obtained from a sample of 111 male, white, blue collar workers at a large chemicals manufacturing organization from a questionnaire compiled for this study, and organizational records. The data were subjected to correlational analysis, supplemented by a form of moderated multiple regression analysis. It was found that the relationships between work stressors and outcome variables were insignificant which led to the conclusions that firstly, a priori specification of stressors may ignore the specificity of persons' appraisals of and responses to stressors, and secondly, consideration must be given to the affective meaning ascribed by subjects to job demands. The moderating effects of the Sense of Coherence, Job Decision Latitude and Participation in Decision Making were inconsistently related to outcome variables, frequently operating in the unexpected direction. It was, however, demonstrated that the main effects of the moderating variables which operated in the expected direction, outweighed the unanticipated negative interaction effects. It was observed that the inclusion of personality variables and situational variables in future studies of occupational stress are necessary, a conclusion which is consistent with more recent findings. 2016-02-22T07:17:23Z 2016-02-22T07:17:23Z 1989 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17172 eng application/pdf Organisational Psychology Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Industrial and Organizational Psychology Job stress - South Africa Working class - South Africa - Job stress Anstey, G M The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers |
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| title | The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers |
| title_full | The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers |
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| title_short | The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers |
| title_sort | effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers |
| topic | Industrial and Organizational Psychology Job stress - South Africa Working class - South Africa - Job stress |
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