March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
15h 14m
English
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Chapter 18
Longitudinal Research in Occupational Stress
A Review of Methodological Issues
Occupational stress researchers are interested in the physiological, behavioral, and psychological responses of employees (i.e., strains) to job characteristics and work environment factors (i.e., stressors) in order to (a) predict the outcomes of exposure to stressors, and (b) better design and organize work or to intervene to reduce the presence of stressors and the experiences of strains (Cooper, 1998; Sonnentag & Frese, 2003; Tetrick & Quick, 2011). Although research in occupational stress continues to dominate the field of occupational health psychology (Macik-Frey, Quick, & Nelson, 2007), it has not been spared by criticisms of methodological shortcomings and deficiency of rigorous longitudinal studies, thus limiting its theoretical and practical contributions (Frese & Zapf, 1988; Kasl, 1987; Sonnentag & Frese, 2003; Zapf, Dormann, & Frese, 1996).
In fact, the prevalence of cross-sectional studies and the need for longitudinal research have been highlighted as key limitations of the occupational stress literature by both methodological (e.g., de Lange, Taris, Kompier, Houtman, & Bongers, 2003; Zapf et al., 1996) and meta-analytic reviews (e.g., Amstad, Meier, Fasel, Elfering, & Semmer, 2011; Crawford, LePine, & Rich, 2010; Eatough, Chang, ...
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