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Turning stressors into something productive: an empirical study revealing nonlinear influences of role stressors on self‐efficacy
Author(s) -
Lindberg Erik,
Wincent Joakim,
Örtqvist Daniel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00995.x
Subject(s) - stressor , psychology , ambiguity , self efficacy , social psychology , role conflict , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy
This study suggests that stressors can be productive for self‐efficacy and that the influence of stressors on self‐efficacy is nonlinear. Analyses were conducted with ordinary least squares regression on a dataset covering responses from 311 deans in Swedish secondary schools. Results support the hypothesized U ‐shape relationship between role conflict and self‐efficacy and the inverted U ‐shape relationship between role ambiguity and self‐efficacy. Thus, findings offer evidence for nonlinear effects of stressors on the level of incumbents' self‐efficacy. This research has implications for further research focused on the association between role stressors and self‐efficacy.