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Chapter 3. Theory 3.1 Foreword
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| Abstract | In the former chapter, an overview of work stress and coping research was given by presenting, most influential theoretical models, a literature search that covered around three decades of efforts and advances, the controversy between coping styles vs. coping behavior research, unsolved dilemmas at the level of theory and instrument development, recent research contributions in the field of personal and social resources, health status, quality of life, and concrete applications of work stress research through stress management strategies. In Chapter 3, the subject turns into the exposition of relevant theories considered to be the basis from which research hypotheses will be developed. The point of departure (section 3.2) is the Transactional Theory of Stress (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984), which provides meta-theoretical principles to understand the work stress process in terms of antecedents, mediating processes, and outcomes. In section 3.2, the integrative conceptual framework of Moos & Schaefer (1993) is considered, which might be understood as an attempt to combine environmental and personal variables into a unified schema. In doing so, coping based models of adaptive functioning are described, by emphasizing the role played by personal resources (and social resources) in coping and health/illness status. After that, selected theoretical concepts in the field of emotions and human adaptation that are relevant to coping process, and that take origin from the Cognitive-Motivational-Relational Theory of Lazarus (1991b), are presented. In closing section 3.2, a recent polemic, which has to do with the critique conducted by Hobfoll (2001) to the transactional approach in the context of his Conservation of Resources Theory (COR), is briefly portrayed. The second part of Chapter 3, which is less general, describes the role played by self-regulation in human functioning, as it is conceived by two remarkable self-oriented theories, namely the self-efficacy theory of Bandura (1997), and the self-regulatory behavioral theory of Carver and Scheier (1998). The former theory emphasizes the idea that self-efficacy perceptions affect how people think, behave, as well as how people emotionally react. The self-regulatory behavioral theory, on its side, offers a dynamic framework that will be of help in discussing two relevant (mal) adaptive processes: goal disengagement (that is, avoidance-oriented coping), and engagement with goal oriented paths (that is, proactive coping). In closing Chapter 3, the most recent advances in the field of the proactive coping theory, which Chapter 3. Theory 66 are significant to hypothesis testing process of this work, are presented. Basically, I … |
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