title: Psychology of computer use: XXXV. Differences in computer users' stress and self-concept in college personnel and students.
abstract: 104 college students and 88 college faculty/staff at a midwestern university completed a questionnaire composed of the Computer Hassles Scale, a measure of computer users' stress, somatization/anxiety items from the Symptoms Checklist-90, a measure of stress reactions, and the Revised Personal Attribute Inventory, a measure of self-concept. Correlations indicated that for students there was a significant negative relationship between computer users' stress and self-concept (r = -.30), while for faculty/staff there was a significant positive relationship (r = .28). Regression analyses showed that self-concept moderated the relationship between computer users' stress and stress outcomes for only the faculty-staff sample. The moderator effect was interpreted using Linville's 1987 "buffering hypothesis," which suggests that persons with higher scores on self-concept are less prone to experience stress-related outcomes like somatization/anxiety symptoms.
authors.affiliation: University of North Alabama, Florence 35632, USA. rhudibur@unaalpha.una.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Hudiburg
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Necessary
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*