From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1: The Theory and Research on Occupational Stress and Wellbeing

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Occupational Sources of Stress: A Review of the Literature Relating to Coronary Heart Disease and Mental Ill Health....Pages 3-23
A Cybernetic Framework for Studying Occupational Stress....Pages 24-46
A Structural Model Approach toward the Development of a Theory of the Link between Stress and Mental Health....Pages 47-65
The Impacts of Positive Psychological States on Physical Health: A Review and Theoretical Framework....Pages 66-90
The Person-Environment Fit Approach to Stress: Recurring Problems and Some Suggested Solutions....Pages 91-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Stress, Type-A, Coping, and Psychological and Physical Symptoms: A Multi-Sample Test of Alternative Models....Pages 111-142
Psychosocial Stress and Breast Cancer: The Inter-relationship between Stress Events, Coping Strategies and Personality....Pages 143-157
Psychosocial Factors and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome....Pages 158-175
The Company Car Driver, Occupational Stress as a Predictor of Motor Vehicle Accident Involvement....Pages 176-187
A Meta-Analysis of Work Demand Stressors and Job Performance: Examining Main and Moderating Effects....Pages 188-230
The Mediating Effects of Job Satisfaction and Propensity to Leave on Role Stress-Job Performance Relationships: Combining Meta-Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling....Pages 231-253
The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Health: A Meta-Analysis....Pages 254-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Uncertainty Amidst Change: The Impact of Privatization on Employee Job Satisfaction and Well-Being....Pages 275-291
The Effects of Working Hours on Health: A Meta-Analytic Review....Pages 292-314
Occupational Differences in the Work-Strain Relationship: Towards the Use of Situation-Specific Models....Pages 315-326
Do National Levels of Individualism and Internal Locus of Control Relate to Well-Being: An Ecological Level International Study....Pages 327-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Mental Health, Job Satisfaction, and Job Stress among General Practitioners....Pages 349-361
Occupational Stress in Head Teachers: A National UK Study....Pages 362-377
Occupational Stress among Senior Police Officers....Pages 378-390
Workload, Stress and Family Life in British Members of Parliament and the Psychological Impact of Reforms to Their Working Hours....Pages 391-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Examining the Relationships among Self-Report Measures of the Type A Behavior Pattern: The Effects of Dimensionality, Measurement Error, and Differences in Underlying Constructs....Pages 407-437
A Shortened Stress Evaluation Tool (ASSET)....Pages 438-457
Back Matter....Pages 458-466