Levels Of Problem-focused Coping Research Articles

Effect of Work Overload on Job Burnout: The Moderation Effect of Problem-Focused Coping and Job Autonomy

Background: In the contemporary work environment marked by specialization, digitalization, and convergence, job burnout has intensified. This study aims to validate the intricate interplay between individuals and their environment in progression from high-skilled, unstructured job stress.Methods: This study explores the moderating effects of problem-focused coping and job autonomy on the relationship between work overload and job burnout. The participant pool comprised 150 employees (mean age=40.7, 68.7% women) stationed at large commercial bank branches in Korea.Results: First, the study did not uncover a statistically significant moderation effect of problem-focused coping on the relationship between work overload and job burnout. Second, the findings revealed that the impact of work overload on job burnout displayed variation contingent upon the levels of problem-focused coping and job autonomy.Conclusions: This study underscores the pivotal role of ensuring job autonomy within the work environment to effectively mitigate the adverse effects of excessive work situations through problem-focused coping.

The relationships between multifoci workplace aggression and work–family conflict

This study examined the relationships between multifoci workplace aggression by supervisors, coworkers, and customers and employees’ work–family conflict (ranked by spouses or closest family members). Furthermore, this study explored how employees’ problem-focused coping levels moderate the relationship between multifoci workplace aggression and employees’ negative affect, which subsequently influences their work–family conflicts. Data from a sample of 457 working adults and their spouses (or their closest family members) and results showed the direct effects of multifoci workplace aggression on employees’ work–family conflict. This research also found that problem-focused coping would weaken the relationship between supervisor/coworker aggression and employees’ negative affect. Moreover, the results revealed that the effects of multifoci workplace aggression spilled over into employees’ family domain through negative affect and influenced their work–family conflicts (ranked by spouses or closest family members). Finally, a moderated-mediation model used in this study supported the hypothesis that negative affect mediates the interactive effects of multifoci workplace aggression and problem-focused coping on employees’ work–family conflicts. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

초등 영재학생과 일반학생의 학업스트레스에 대한 학업적 자기효능감과 스트레스 대처방식의 상호작용효과

The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction effects on academic stress of gifted student and normal student by academic self-efficacy and stress coping styles. We conducted a questionnaire survey with 100 sixth grade gifted student and 100 normal student who showed academic achievement of the same level. According to the results of this study, gifted student showed higher problem-focused coping than normal student. Both elementary gifted student and normal student, the lower academic self-efficacy and problem-focused coping, the more increased academic stress increased. In the gifted student case where the level of problem-focused coping was high, academic stress was lower when academic self-efficacy was high. Normal student`s academic stress was lower when the level of problem-focused coping and academic self-efficacy was higher.

초등학생의 시험불안에 대한 학업적 자기효능감과 시험불안 대처방식의 상호작용효과

The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction effects of children`s academic self-efficacy and to test their anxiety coping style in terms of their test anxiety. We conducted a questionnaire survey with 193 sixth-graders in an elementary school. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the children were more worried about emotionality to test anxiety, and used problem-focused coping significantly more frequently than emotion-focused coping. In addition, female children demonstrated more emotionality and worry about test anxiety and used emotion-focused coping for test anxiety more frequently. Second, emotionality was higher when emotion-focused coping was used. In the case where the level of problem-focused coping was high, emotionality was higher when academic self-efficacy was high. Children`s worry was lower when the level of problem-focused coping was high and when the level of emotion-focused coping was low. In female children, however, worry increased when the level of problem-focused coping was low and the level of emotion-focused coping was high.

Life Satisfaction of Workers with Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Brazil: Associations with Symptoms, Functional Limitation and Coping

This study aimed at analyzing the contribution of socio-demographic, clinical, functional and psychosocial variables toward life satisfaction among workers with Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSD). A cross-sectional study was carried out with 155 workers suffering from WMSD in one or both upper extremities, with time since the onset of the health condition longer than six months. Most of the workers were women (85%) between 30 and 49 years of age (77%) and predominantly manual laborers with elementary education level. Structured form for socio-demographic and clinical identification of the participants, the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire, the Ways of Coping Scale and the Satisfaction With Life Scale. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was employed and the final model explained 23% of the variance regarding life satisfaction (adjusted R2 = 0.21; p = 0.0001). Single workers and those reporting higher levels of emotion-focused and lower levels of problem-focused coping reported lower life satisfaction. The strategies with which an individual copes with the disease had an influence on the level of life satisfaction regardless of the functional condition. In the sample studied, the strongest predictors of life satisfaction were the psychosocial variables, represented by coping strategies regarding the disease. Interventions directed at workers with WMSD that seek to promote well-being should favor coping in the most adaptive manner, going beyond the clinical realm of the disease.

Canadian Dental Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning Environment and Psychological Functioning Over Time

A cohort of dental students (N=28) at the University of Manitoba was followed throughout their entire dental education program to explore changes in their perceptions of the learning environment over time. Aspects of the students'psychological functioning, including common psychological symptoms, self-esteem, and coping strategies, were also evaluated to assess changes in these factors over time. A battery of instruments consisting of the Learning Environment Survey (LES), the Symptom Questionnaire (SQ), the Ways of Coping Checklist (WCCL), and the State Self-Esteem Scale (SSES) was administered at the beginning, midpoint, and end of each academic year throughout the four-year dental education program. Results indicated that there was a minor positive recalibration of student perceptions in the areas of course relevance and opportunities for outside interests during the first months of year one. Apart from this, perceptions of dental school as a seldom-to-occasionally positive learning environment were maintained over the entire dental education program. In terms of psychological functioning over time, students reported decreases in their levels of problem-focused coping and self-esteem, increased use of avoidance and wishful thinking as coping strategies, and more anxiety, depression, and hostility at various points. Some implications of these findings for dental education are discussed.

Coping Strategy Profiles Used by Salespeople: Their Relationships with Personal Characteristics and Work Outcomes

Sales research to date has focused on coping styles as measured by problem-focused coping (PFC) and emotion-focused coping (EFC), but it has excluded time management perceptions and behaviors as ways of coping with stress (Srivastava and Sager 1999; Strutton and Lumpkin 1993). This study examines a coping model that integrates EFC, PFC, and time management behaviors in the rubric of a profile. The profile allows for practice of several coping behaviors simultaneously. Using data gained from salespeople, four tentative coping strategy profiles are developed and examined relative to personal characteristics and job outcomes. Study results suggest that salespeople who are able to better handle stress use time management behaviors more often in addition to using high levels of PFC and low levels of EFC.