Abstract
A set of hypotheses concerning the occupational stress process was tested for a sample of shrimp fishermen (n=211) and a comparison group of land‐based workers (n = 99) from a coastal community in Alabama. As hypothesized, shrimp fishermen were exposed to greater numbers of occupational stressors, experience greater amounts of stress, and benefit from greater amounts of social support than land‐based workers. In contrast to expectations based in both theory and previous research, social support had no direct or indirect effect on stress experienced by shrimpers. An explanation is offered emphasizing the conflicts generated by work that is frequently performed at sites remote in both place and time from the potential support of home life.
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