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Work stress and the stress‐buffering roles of work and family resources
Author(s) -
Billings Andrew G.,
Moos Rudolf H.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030030303
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , work (physics) , scale (ratio) , social support , burnout , stress (linguistics) , social psychology , gerontology , clinical psychology , medicine , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Abstract This paper describes the development of the Work Environment Scale, which includes measures of perceived stressful and supportive aspects of the job milieu. This scale is used to examine stressful effects of the work environment on personal functioning and the stress‐buffering value of work and family social resources among a representative community group of men and women. Work stressors had a greater impact on men, but supportive social resources provided more attenuation of such effects among men than among women. Although work stressors generally had less effect on men whose wives were employed, high stress in the women's work settings had some indirect negative consequences for their husbands. Reprint requests should be directed to the authors, Social Ecology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.