School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, Division of Education Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2013;26(4):355-77. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2012.700477. Epub 2012 Jul 16.
In a general population sample of 2343 Australian workers from a wide ranging employment demographic, we extended research testing the buffering role of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) as a macro-level resource within the health impairment process of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. Moderated structural equation modeling was used to test PSC as a moderator between emotional and psychological job demands and worker depression compared with control and social support as alternative moderators. We also tested PSC as a moderator between depression and positive organizational behaviors (POB; engagement and job satisfaction) compared with control and social support as moderators. As expected we found PSC moderated the effects of job demands on depression and further moderated the effects of depression on POB with fit to the data that was as good as control and social support as moderators. This study has shown that PSC is a macro-level resource and safety signal for workers acting to reduce demand-induced depression. We conclude that organizations need to focus on the development of a robust PSC that will operate to buffer the effects of workplace psychosocial hazards and to build environments conducive to worker psychological health and positive organizational behaviors.
在一个由来自广泛就业人群的 2343 名澳大利亚工人组成的普通人群样本中，我们扩展了研究，检验了心理社会安全气候（PSC）作为健康损害过程中的宏观资源的缓冲作用，该研究测试了 PSC 在 JD-R 模型中的作用，以测试 PSC 在情绪和心理工作要求与工人抑郁之间的调节作用，与控制和社会支持作为替代调节因素进行比较。我们还测试了 PSC 在抑郁与积极的组织行为（POB；敬业度和工作满意度）之间的调节作用，与控制和社会支持作为调节因素进行比较。正如预期的那样，我们发现 PSC 调节了工作要求对抑郁的影响，并且进一步调节了抑郁对 POB 的影响，与控制和社会支持作为调节因素一样符合数据的拟合度。本研究表明，PSC 是一种宏观资源和安全信号，可减少工作场所心理社会危害对工人的影响，从而营造有利于工人心理健康和积极的组织行为的环境。我们的结论是，组织需要专注于发展强大的 PSC，以缓冲工作场所心理社会危害的影响，并营造有利于工人心理健康和积极的组织行为的环境。
