Table Of ContentFrom Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1
Also by Cary Cooper
WELLBEING: Productivity & Happiness at Work (with I. Robertson)
WELLBEING AND WORK (with P. Dewe)
From Stress to Wellbeing
Volume 1
The Theory and Research on Occupational
Stress and Wellbeing
Edited by
Cary L. Cooper
Lancaster University, UK
ISBN 978-1-349-33630-2 ISBN 978-1-137-31065-1 (eBook)
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Contents
List of Tables x
List of Figures xv
Acknowledgements xvi
Notes on Contributors xix
Part I Theory and Reviews of Stress and Wellbeing
1 Occupational Sources of Stress: A Review of the Literature
Relating to Coronary Heart Disease and Mental Ill Health 3
Cary L. Cooper and Judi Marshall
2 A Cybernetic Framework for Studying Occupational Stress 24
Thomas G. Cummings and Cary L. Cooper
3 A Structural Model Approach toward the Development of a
Theory of the Link between Stress and Mental Health 47
Cary L. Cooper and A. J. Baglioni, Jr
4 The Impacts of Positive Psychological States on Physical Health:
A Review and Theoretical Framework 66
Jeffrey R. Edwards and Cary L. Cooper
5 The Person- Environment Fit Approach to Stress:
Recurring Problems and Some Suggested Solutions 91
Jeffrey R. Edwards and Cary L. Cooper
Part II Stress–Strain Relationships
6 Stress, Type-A , Coping, and Psychological and Physical
Symptoms: A M ulti-S ample Test of Alternative Models 111
Jeffrey R. Edwards, A. J. Baglioni, Jr. and Cary L. Cooper
7 Psychosocial Stress and Breast Cancer: The Inter- relationship
between Stress Events, Coping Strategies and Personality 143
Cary L. Cooper and E. Brian Faragher
8 Psychosocial Factors and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 158
Suzan Lewis, Cary L. Cooper and Derrick Bennett
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9 The Company Car Driver, Occupational Stress as a Predictor of
Motor Vehicle Accident Involvement 176
Sue Cartwright, Cary L. Cooper and Andrea Barron
10 A M eta-A nalysis of Work Demand Stressors and
Job Performance: Examining Main and Moderating Effects 188
Simona Gilboa, Arie Shirom, Yitzhak Fried and Cary L. Cooper
11 The Mediating Effects of Job Satisfaction and Propensity
to Leave on Role Stress–Job Performance Relationships:
Combining Meta-A nalysis and Structural Equation Modeling 231
Yitzhak Fried, Arie Shirom, Simona Gilboa and Cary L. Cooper
12 The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Health:
a Meta-Analysis 254
E. Brian Faragher, M. Cass and Cary L. Cooper
Part III Sources of Workplace Stress
13 Uncertainty Amidst Change: The Impact of Privatization on
Employee Job Satisfaction and Well-Being 275
Adrian Nelson, Cary L. Cooper and Paul R. Jackson
14 The Effects of Working Hours on Health:
A Meta-A nalytic Review 292
Kate Sparks, Cary L. Cooper, Yitzhak Fried and Arie Shirom
15 Occupational Differences in the Work–Strain Relationship:
Towards the use of S ituation- Specific Models 315
Kate Sparks and Cary L. Cooper
16 Do National Levels of Individualism and Internal
Locus of Control Relate to W ell- Being: An Ecological Level
International Study 327
Paul E. Spector, Cary L. Cooper, et al.
Part IV Stressful Occupations
17 Mental Health, Job Satisfaction, and Job Stress among
General Practitioners 349
Cary L. Cooper, Usha Rout, and Brian Faragher
18 Occupational Stress in Head Teachers: A National UK Study 362
Cary L. Cooper and Mike Kelly
19 Occupational Stress among Senior Police Officers 378
Jennifer Brown, Cary L. Cooper and Bruce Kirkcaldy
Contents ix
20 Workload, Stress and Family Life in British Members of
Parliament and the Psychological Impact of Reforms to
Their Working Hours 391
Ashley Weinberg, Cary L. Cooper and Anne Weinberg
Part V Research Methods in Stress and Wellbeing
21 Examining the Relationships among S elf-R eport Measures of
the Type A Behavior Pattern: The Effects of Dimensionality,
Measurement Error, and Differences in Underlying Constructs 407
Jeffrey R. Edwards, A. J. Baglioni, Jr and Cary L. Cooper
22 A Shortened Stress Evaluation Tool (ASSET) 438
E. B. Faragher, C. L. Cooper and S. Cartwright
Index 458
