Dr Jamie Gillman J.C.Gillman@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer in Psychology
The role of social support and social identification on challenge and threat cognitive appraisals, perceived stress, and life satisfaction in workplace employees
C. Gillman, Jamie; Turner, Martin; Slater, Matthew
Authors
Martin Turner
Matthew Slater
Contributors
Fang Wang
Other
Abstract
There is an emergent literature highlighting the positive role of social support and social identification in buffering against the deleterious effects of psychological stressors. Yet, we have limited understanding of how exactly these social factors fit within contemporary stress and coping theory. To advance and gain a greater understanding of these social factors, we explore the associations of social support and social identification on individuals’ challenge and threat cognitive appraisals and how this then relates to perceived stress, life satisfaction, turnover intentions, and job performance. A total of 412 workplace employees from private and public sector occupations completed state measures around a recent most stressful experience at work. Results revealed atemporal associations between cognitive resource appraisals with both social support and social identification. Specifically, greater identification with colleagues and lower threat were related to less perceived stress, while having greater social identification (with colleagues and organisation), social support, and lower threat, were related to greater life satisfaction. Greater perceived stress, and lower social identification and life satisfaction, were also related to greater turnover intentions. While greater identification with the organisation and life satisfaction, along with lower perceived stress were related to greater job performance. Taken together, this research provides evidence that social support and social identification play a positive role when trying to promote more adaptive responses to stressful situations.
Citation
C. Gillman, J., Turner, M., & Slater, M. (2023). The role of social support and social identification on challenge and threat cognitive appraisals, perceived stress, and life satisfaction in workplace employees. PLoS ONE, 18(7), e0288563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288563
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 29, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 12, 2023 |
Publication Date | Jul 12, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jul 7, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 12, 2023 |
Journal | PLOS ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | e0288563 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288563 |
Publisher URL | http://www.plosone.org/ |
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