Core self-evaluations: A predictor variable for job stress

European Psychologist

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 96-102

  Brunborg, Geir Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Job stress; Personality; Psychosocial work conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449091939     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.13.2.96     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Arnold, J., Cooper, C.L., & Robertson, I.T. (1998). Work psychology understanding human behavior in the workplace (3rd ed.). Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.
2. Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: Freeman.
3. Bond, F., & Bunce, D. (2003). The role of acceptance and job control in mental health, job satisfaction, and work performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 1057-1067.
4. Bono, J.E., & Judge, T.A. (2003). Core self-evaluations: A review of the trait and its role in job satisfaction and job performance. European Journal of Personality, 17, 5-18.
5. Cooper, C. (1981). The Stress Check: Coping with the stresses of life and work. New York: Prentice Hall.
6. Coopersmith, S. (1967). The antecedents of self-esteem. San Francisco: Freeman.
7. Costa, P., & McCrae, RR. (1992). NEO PI-R. professional manual. Odessa, FL: PAR.
8. Daniels, K., & Guppy, A. (1994). Occupational stress, social support, job control, and psychological well-being. Human Relations, 47, 1523-1544.
9. de Jonge, J., Bosma, H, Peter, R, & Siegrist, J. (2000). Job strain, effort-reward imbalance and employee well-being: A large-scale cross-sectional study. Social Science & Medicine, 50, 1317-1327.
10. Frazier, P., Tix, AP, & Barron, KE. (2004). Testing moderator and mediator effects in counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51, 115-134.
11. Johnson, J.V., & Hall, E.M. (1988). Job strain, work place social support, and cardiovascular disease: A cross-sectional study of a random sample of the Swedish working population. American Journal of Public Health, 78, 1336-1342.
12. Judge, T.A., Bono, J.E., & Locke, E.A. (2000). Personality and job satisfaction: The mediating role of job characteristics. Journal of Applied Psychology 85, 237-249.
13. Judge, T.A., Erez, A., Bono, J.E., & Thoresen, C.J. (2003). The core self-evaluations scale: Development of a measure. Personnel Psychology, 56, 303-331.
14. Judge, T.A., Erez, A., & Thoresen, C.J. (2000). Why negative affectivity (and self-deception) should be included in job stress research: Bathing the baby with the bath water. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 101-111.
15. Judge, T.A., Locke, E.A., & Durham, C.C. (1997). The dispositional causes of job satisfaction: A core evaluations approach. Research in Organizational Behavior, 19, 151-188.
16. Kahn, K.L., & Byosiere, P. (1992). Stress in organizations. In M.D. Dunnette & L.M. Hugh (Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (2nd ed., pp. 571-630). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
17. Karasek, R.A. (1979). Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: Implications for job redesign. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24, 285-308.
18. Karasek, R.A., & Theorell, T. (1990). Healthy work: Stress, productivity, and the reconstruction of working life. New York: Basic Books.
19. Moreland, R.L., & Sweeney, P.D. (1984). Self-expectancies and reactions to evaluations of personal performance. Journal of Personality, 52, 156-176.
20. Rector, N.A., & Roger, D. (1997). The stress buffering effects of self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 799-808.
21. Rotter, J. (1966). Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement. Psychological Monographs, 81, 609-620.
22. Salanova, M., Peiro, J.M., & Schaufeli, W.B. (2002). Self-efficacy specificity and burnout among information technology workers: An extension of the job demand-control model. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 11, 1-25.
23. Taris, T.W., & Feij, J.A. (2004). Learning and strain among newcomers: A three-wave study on the effects of job demands and job control. The Journal of Psychology, 138, 543-563.
24. Theorell, T., Michelsen, H., & Nordemar, R. (1991). Tre arbetsmiljöindeks som använts i stockholmundersökningen 1 [Three work environment indices used in the Stockholm Survey]. In M. Hagber, Hagstedt, C (Ed.), Stockholmundersökningen 1 [The Stockholm Survey]. Stockholm: MUSIC Books.
25. Van der Doef, M., & Maes, S. (1999). The job demand-control(support) model and psychological well-being: A review of 20 years of empirical research. Work & Stress, 13, 87-114.