Abstract
Workers with chronic health conditions may feel stigmatized at work, where ill health is thought to conflict with productivity and reliability. Threat of stigmatization is a stressor that can lead to strains. Certain responses to stigma threat (coping strategies) may also play a fundamental role in the strain process. We hypothesized that threat of stigmatization based on chronic illness would relate to job-induced tension and absenteeism, and that these relationships would be mediated by work-related engagement and disengagement coping. Additionally, we identified two potential moderators of these mediated relationships: work centrality and continuance commitment. We surveyed 315 individuals who were working at least 30 hours per week and had at least one chronic illness or health condition. As expected, stigmatization threat significantly related to both job-induced tension and absenteeism. Also, work-related engagement coping mediated the relationship between stigma threat and job-induced tension, and ...
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