Enhancing Workers’ Well-Being. Scientific and social relevance of managing stress in the workplace

Vignoli, Michela (2015) Enhancing Workers’ Well-Being. Scientific and social relevance of managing stress in the workplace, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze psicologiche, 27 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6852.
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Abstract

Purpose. Despite work-related stress is one of the most studied topic in organizational psychology, many aspects as for example the use of different measures (e.g. subjective and objective, qualitative and quantitative) are still under debate. According to this, in order to enhance knowledge concerning which factors and processes contribute to create healthy workplaces, this thesis is composed by four different studies aiming to understand: a) the role of relevant antecedents (e.g. leadership, job demands, work-family conflict, social support etc.) and outcomes (e.g. workplace phobia, absenteeism etc.) of work-related stress; and b) how to manage psychosocial risk factors in the workplace. The studies. The first study focused on how disagreement between supervisors and their employees on leadership style (transformational and transactional) could affect workers well-being and work team variables. The second and third study used both subjective and objective data in order to increase the quality of the reliability of the results gained. Particularly, the second study focused on job demand and its relationship with objective sickness leave. Findings showed that despite there is no direct relationship between these two variables, job demand affects work-family conflict, which in turn affect exhaustion, which leads to absenteeism. The third study analysed the role of a new concept never studied before in organizational settings (workplace phobia), as a health outcome in the JD-R model, demonstrating also its relationship with absenteeism. The last study highlighted the added value of using the mixed methods research approach in order to detect and analyse context-specific job demands which could affects workers’ health. Conclusion. The findings of this thesis answered both to open questions in the scientific literature and to the social request of managing psychosocial risk factors in the workplace in order to enhance workers well-being.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Vignoli, Michela
Supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Scienze umanistiche
Ciclo
27
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
work-related stress, well-being, workplace phobia, JD-R model, absenteeism, job demands, job resources, mixed methods, leadership
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6852
Data di discussione
10 Aprile 2015
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