Be Mindful of What You Impose on Your Colleagues: Implications of Social Burden for Burdenees’ Well-Being, Attitudes and Counterproductive Work Behaviour

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• Personal Author:
  Caughlin DE ; Liu C ; Nauta MM ; Spector PE ; Yang L-Q
• Description:
  This paper describes two studies of a new relational variable social burden and its implications for employees' well-being, job attitudes and counterproductive work behaviours. Social burden is defined as behaviours from colleagues that elicit the focal employees' social support. Across two separate samples (540 nurses and 172 university employees), we found that social burden differentiated from psychological aggression and incivility, respectively. A separate cross-sectional sample of 273 nurses from Study 1 revealed that social burden from colleagues was positively associated with focal employees' anxiety, irritation, depressive mood, physical symptoms, job dissatisfaction and turnover intentions. Study 2 used a time-lagged design with a separate sample of 383 university employees and 160 of their coworkers. In this study, social burden from supervisors and from coworkers were together predictive of employees' subsequent emotional strains and job attitudes, as measured 6 months later. With respect to sources of social burden, social burden from supervisors more strongly predicted job attitudes and counterproductive work behaviours directed at others, and social burden from coworkers more strongly predicted emotional strains. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Attitude Author Keywords: Social Stressor Job Attitudes Job Stress Mental Health Occupational Psychology Psychological Responses Social Burden From Coworkers Social Burden From Supervisors Strains Work Environment Worker Health

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• ISSN:
  1532-3005
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Illinois ; New York ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  70-83
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063300
• Citation:
  Stress Health 2016 Feb; 32(1):70-83
• Contact Point Address:
  Liu-Qin Yang, Department of Psychology, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR, 97207, USA
• Email:
  lyang@pdx.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Stress and Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c5492d306f10b62cb5fee0dea8860e71efd88aefa182f0709e1fd2705a37ffba1a35f43d86b8954572660dbf46fca30f9d19013ef1c7d2e9b6c7066995783a5
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226388/cdc_226388_DS1.pdf
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