Work stress and coping among professionals / edited by Chan Kwok-bun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chan, Kwok B.

Series:

Social sciences in Asia ; v. 11.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional employees--Job stress--Singapore.

Professional employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While aspiring to escape from the drudgery and alienation which seem to be the fate of manual workers, professionals have long realized to their distress that their professionalism and work commitment by no means reduce the stressfulness of their work. Such an awareness of the impact of work on their physical and emotional well-being has led the professionals to make efforts to maximize their person-environment fit and to enhance their coping and adaption, knowing, sometimes helplessly, that society, bureaucracy, and work organization continue to be a potent source of work stress. This book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among professionals by a multidisciplinary research team of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and human resources experts. The work lives of seven groups of professionals are profiled and compared in this book: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. Based on a large-scale survey, in-depth interviews, and comparative analyses, this book suggests practical recommendations and policy measures for personal, organizational as well as societal intervention. Work stress is a social problem--as such it requires a societal solution. Meanwhile, individual professionals cope and adapt in the way they know best, which is certainly not a satisfactory response.

Contents:

Preliminary material / K. Chan

Chapter One. Introduction: Society, stress and coping: The dialectic of person-environment fit and human adaptation / Chan Kwok-Bun

Chapter Two. Engineers in a newly industrialising economy / Hing Ai-Yun

Chapter Three. Work stress and psychological well-being among nurses / Boey Kam-Weng , Chan Kwok-Bun , Ko Yiu-Chung , Goh Lee-Gan and Lim Geok-Choo

Chapter Four. Stress coping strategies and psychological well-being among nurses By Boey Kam-Weng, Chan Kwok-Bun And Ko Yiu-Chung / Boey Kam-Weng , Chan Kwok-Bun and Ko Yiu-Chung

Chapter Five. Stress on patrol: Stress And Coping Among Police officers / George D. Bishop , Eddie M. W. Tong , Diong Siew-Maan , Why Yong-Peng , Hwee Chong Enkelmann , Majeed Khader , Jansen Ang , Vicky L. M. Tan and David S. Q. Koh

Chapter Six. Organisational health in the police: A 3-r approach / Majeed Khader , Jansen Ang , Koh Chee-Wee , Diong Siew-Maan , Michelle Koh , Poh LI-LI and Clare Tan

Chapter Seven. Stress and coping of teachers: A quantitative and qualitative analysis / Ko Yiu-Chung , Chan Kwok-Bun and Gina Lai

Chapter Eight. Work stress, work satisfaction and coping among life insurance agents / Chan Kwok-Bun

Chapter Nine. Institutional context and stress appraisal among life insurance agents / Ko Yiu-Chung , Chan Kwok-Bun and Gina Lai

Chapter Ten. Work stress among six professional groups: A comparison / Ko Yiu-Chung , Chan Kwok-Bun and Gina Lai

Chapter Eleven. Coping resources, coping strategies and work stress among six professional groups: A comparative analysis By Gina Lai, Chan Kwok-Bun And Ko Yiu-Chung / Ko Yiu-Chung , Chan Kwok-Bun and Gina Lai

Contributors / K. Chan

References / K. Chan

Subject index / K. Chan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-91707-9

9786611917074

90-474-1888-3

OCLC:

437239276

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004154803.i-262 DOI