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Coping with job insecurity: How does personality make a difference?
Author(s) -
Roskies Ethel,
LouisGuerin Christiane,
Fournier Claudette
Publication year - 1993
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.4030140702
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , neglect , coping (psychology) , job insecurity , disposition , social psychology , occupational stress , job stress , clinical psychology , psychiatry , job satisfaction , electrical engineering , sense (electronics) , engineering
Reversing a long‐standing tradition of neglect, occupational stress researchers have recently rediscovered the importance of personality disposition in understanding the transformation of stresses into strains and strains into symptoms. Two recent studies of job insecurity in our laboratory provided a fortuitous opportunity to explore the extent of this influence and the mechanisms by which it operates. The most important of our findings is that positive personality attributes impact as strongly on mental health as does negative personality disposition, albeit in the opposite direction. Thus, personality can cushion, as well as aggravate, the impact of occupational stress.