| Abstrakt: |
Higher-status occupations, like professionals or managers, are traditionally regarded as high-paying jobs with abundant resources, prestige and privilege. However, recently, scholars found that higher-status people are more likely to internalize the organization culture and rules and as a result, tend to report more job involvement and commitment, long work hours and job overload. These workplace demands attached to the higher status further produce stress-related mental health. The paradoxical characteristics of occupation are summarized in Stress of Higher Status hypothesis and resource of higher status hypothesis. The current study aims to test these two hypotheses by examining the suppression effects of workplace demands and the mediating effects of work resources between occupation, education and perceived stress; it also expands the hypotheses by investigate the moderator role of gender in the processes. For this purpose, 2008 National Study of Changing Workforce dataset was adopted and Markov Chain Monte Carlo multiple imputation technique was applied. Results of stepwise OLS regression mostly support Stress of Higher Status hypothesis: job overload and work-to-family conflict suppress the association between occupation, education and perceived stress while working overtime does not. The moderator influence of gender is also revealed with some complexities. The findings of this study facilitate the understanding of stress process and interaction between social status, workplace and health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
