title: Do resources bolster coping and does coping buffer stress? An organizational study with longitudinal aspect and control for negative affectivity.
abstract: Psychiatric workers facing redeployment completed questionnaire measures of stressors, resources (locus of control and perceived social support), coping, well-being, and negative affectivity, at baseline (N = 109) and 1 year later (loss of 7 participants). Regression analyses of the baseline data suggested that as stressors increased, so did avoidance coping, but less so for those high in internality or perceived social support. Problem-focused coping was bolstered by internality and emotion-focused coping by perceived social support. Other regression analyses, with a longitudinal aspect, suggested that stressors had a deleterious effect on well-being. Problem- and emotion-focused coping had beneficial effects, whereas avoidance coping had a (delayed) deleterious effect. These effects of coping were predominantly main and not buffering effects.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health and Human Performance, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom. d.k.ingledew@bangor.ac.uk
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Ingledew
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D006113:United Kingdom