title: Coping, negative affectivity, and the work environment: additive and interactive predictors of mental health.
abstract: The present study tested the hypothesis that direct coping would moderate relations between work stress and mental health outcome, whereas suppression (a form of emotion-focused coping) would show an overall effect on outcome. Data on coping, perceived work demand and support, and affective symptoms were obtained from trainee teachers (N = 157). The results supported the hypothesis. Gender differences also were observed; men reported more use of suppression than did women. In addition, negative affectivity (NA) was examined as a confounding variable and as an index of reactivity in stress-outcome relations. NA acted to inflate associations between work perceptions and affective symptoms, but it was also a significant moderator variable; high NA subjects showed greater reactivity to work demand than did low NA subjects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Parkes
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications