Ebook: Employee Health, Coping and Methodologies (Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being, Volume 5)

Cover -- Contents -- Overview -- Endocrinological Processes Associated With Job Stress: Catecholamine and Cortisol Responses to Acute and Chronic Stressors -- Introduction -- The Role of Catecholamines and Cortisol in the Stress Response -- Endocrinological Responses to Acute Stressors -- Laboratory Research -- Field Research -- Endocrinological Correlates of Chronic Stressors -- Catecholamines -- Workload -- Job Control -- Job Strain -- Social Aspects of the Workplace -- Other Job Characteristics -- Strain Reactions as Indicators of Work Stress -- Cortisol -- Differences in Cortisol Levels between Occupations and Different Types of Jobs -- Workload -- Job Control -- Job Strain -- Social Aspects of the Workplace -- Other Work Characteristics -- Strain Reactions as Indicators of Work Stress -- Responsivity to Acute Stressors -- Recovery -- Laboratory Research on Catecholamine and Cortisol Recovery -- Field Research on Catecholamine and Cortisol Recovery -- Summary and Conclusion -- Directions for Future Research -- References -- Health Consequences of Work-Family Conflict: The Dark Side of the Work-Family Interface -- Work-Family Conflict -- Health and Well-Being -- Relationships of Work-Family Conflict with Health and Well-Being -- Psychological Health -- Physical Health -- A Model of the Health Consequences of Work-Family Conflict -- Overview of the Model -- The Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict -- The Impact of Work-Family Conflict on Negative Emotions and Role Dissatisfaction -- The Consequences of Negative Emotions and Role Dissatisfaction -- An Agenda for Future Research -- Notes -- References -- Relationship of the Number and Distribution of Work Hours to Health and Quality-of-Life (QOL) Outcomes -- Overview -- Number of Hours Worked -- The Current Situation -- Objective Work Hours and Outcomes -- Study of Total Family Work Hours -- Distribution of Work Hours -- The Current Situation -- Nonstandard Work Schedules and Outcomes -- Study of Families with Shiftworking Mothers -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- References -- Work Stress, Coping Resources, and Mental Health: A Study of America's Black Elite -- Introduction -- Background Literature -- Work Stress and Mental Health -- Coping and Mental Health -- Data -- Measures and Methods -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- Descriptives -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Sector Lists Sampled for Black Elite -- The Many Roles of Control in a Stressor-Emotion Theory of Counterproductive Work Behavior -- Basic Emotion and Stress Theory -- Emotion -- Stress -- Control in the General Stress Process -- Work Stress -- The Basic Stress Model Applied to Work Stress -- Control and Work Stress -- Counterproductive Work Behavior -- Stressor-Emotion Model of CWB -- Control and CWB -- Future Directions -- References -- The Assumed Linearity of Organizational Phenomena: Implications for Occupational Stress and Well-Being -- I