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Article: Chronic job stressors and job control: effects on event-related coping success and well-being.(Special section)
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- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Effects of chronic job stressors and job control on situational coping
There is converging evidence that low job control as well as chronic job stressors increase the risk of impaired well-being (Sonnentag & Frese, 2003; Warr, 1999) and health (Belkic, Landsbergis, Schnall, & Baker, 2004; Cooper, Dewe, & O'Driscoll, 2001; Marmot, Theorell, & Siegrist, 2002; Siegrist, 2002). The same applies to person-related variables that might influence these outcomes, such as general coping strategies. Despite different categorizations, two main strategies are mentioned almost universally: (1) problem-focused, or active, coping (e.g. attempts to change a situation); and (2) ...