job stress and affective well-being:the mieating effects of core seft-evaluations

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Mohtaram Nemat Tavousi ¹

1 - Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch

Received: 2015-06-01 Accepted : 2015-06-01 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: Job Stress, job strain, affective well-being, core self-evaluations,

Abstract :

this study aimed to examine the mediating effects of core self-evaluations in the relationship between job stressors (interpersonal conflict at work, organizational constraints, quantitative workload) and job strains, as well as affective well being. Based on a correlation design, 228 (45 males, 183 females) Islamic Azad University employees completed the measures of the Job Stressors (Spector & Jex, 1998) consisted of the Interpersonal Conflict at Work Scale, the Organizational Constraints Scale, Quantitative Workload Inventory and Physical Symptoms Inventory, as well as the Job Related Affective Well-Being Scale (Van Katwyk et al, 2000), and the Core Self-Evaluations Scales consisted of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965), Generalized SelfEfficacy Scale (GSES; Judge et al.,1998), the Neuroticism Scale of Eysenck Personality Inventory (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1968) and the Internality, Powerful Others and Chance Scale (IPC; Levenson, 1981). The results of path analysis indicated that interpersonal conflict and organizational constraints influenced the job strains positively and organizational constraints influenced the affective well-being negatively. Furthermore, core self-evaluations mediated the relationship between job stressors and Job strains, as well as affective well-being significantly. It can be concluded that the appraisal of job stressors and its consequences are influenced by core self-evaluations.