Early antecedents of adult work stress: social-emotional competence and anger in adolescence.
We hypothesized that youth with elevated coronary heart disease (CHD) risk who exhibit diminished social-emotional competence and frequent anger in adolescence experience increased occupational stress after becoming adults. Perceived job control and support from coworkers in 57 young Black and White men and women were regressed on measures of social problem-solving skill (SPS) and anger arousal (AR) obtained 5 years earlier when participants were in high school. In models controlling for grade point average (GPA), SPS and GPA independently predicted coworker support in adulthood; anger in high school predicted diminished job control. These findings suggest that occupational stress may have identifiable social-emotional antecedents early in life.
Fitzgerald
Sheila T
ST
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. sfitzger@jhsph.edu
Brown
Kathleen M
KM
Sonnega
John R
JR
Ewart
Craig K
CK
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000786:Anger; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology