Relation of negative affectivity to self-reports of job stressors and psychological outcomes.
A total of 250 new women teachers participated in a longitudinal study of the influence of negative affectivity (NA) on the relation of self-report work-environment measures to psychological outcomes. Three "neutrally worded" work-environment measures were specially constructed to minimize confounding with NA. The work-environment measures were moderately related to postemployment depressive symptoms, job satisfaction, and, among Whites but not among a principally Black and Hispanic subsample, motivation. Correlation and regression coefficients were largely unchanged when the preemployment psychophysiologic symptoms scale and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (L. S. Radloff, 1977), factors that tap NA, were controlled. Findings suggest NA does not overly distort the relation of some self-report work-environment measures to depressive symptoms, satisfaction, and motivation.
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School of Education, EDFN, City College of the City University of New York, New York 10031, USA. schcc@cunyum.cuny.edu
D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009042:Motivation; D016272:Occupational Health; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013663:Teaching; D016526:Workload