Internal-external locus of control, perceived occupational stress, and cardiovascular health
| Autor: | Kenneth R. Brousseau, Mark Mallinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Sociology and Political Science business.industry Cardiovascular health Stressor Small business Locus of control Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Personal control medicine Anxiety Occupational stress medicine.symptom Psychology business General Psychology Applied Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Organizational Behavior. 2:65-71 |
| ISSN: | 1099-1379 0894-3796 |
| Popis: | This paper reports an exploratory investigation of relationships between internal-external locus of control (Rotter, 1966), perceived occupational stress, and indicators of cardiovascular health. Previous research findings indicate that various stressors encountered on the job are associated with cardiovascular ill health and that certain individual difference factors (e.g. type A behaviour, several traits measured by the MMPI) differentiate between individuals who remain healthy versus those who fall prey to coronary heart disease (CHD), including myocardial infarction (see reviews by Copper and Marshall, 1976; Rosenman and Friedman, 1974; House, 1974; Jenkins, 1971; Kahn and Quinn, 1970). Recent evidence increasingly points to locus of control as an important influence on individuals' psychological and physiological reactions to potentially stressful events. In a review of the literature, Joe (1971) reports that 'internals' (those who believe rewards to be contingent upon their own actions) generally experience less anxiety than 'externals' (those who believe rewards to be contingent on factors beyond their personal control). In a study of small business owners/managers, Anderson, Hellriegel, and Slocum (1977) report that internals perceived a flood which threatened their businesses to be less stressful than externals. On the physiological side, Kobasa (1979) reports that locus of control significantly discriminated between a high stress/high illness group of managers versus a high stress/low illness group. Managers who had recently experienced highly stressful events, yet remained healthy, were significantly more likely to express internal beliefs about locus of control than were those who had fallen ill. These findings indicate that internals experience less stress as a result of encounters with potentially threatening situations than do their external counterparts. Although, it could be argued that externals fare better than internals when faced with difficult circumstances by 'resigning themselves to the |
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