Hulin Stephanie, Bolliger Larissa, Lukan Junoš, Caluwaerts Anneleen, De Neve Rosalie, Luštrek Mitja, De Bacquer Dirk, Clays Els
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Stress Health. 2024 Jun;40(3):e3315. doi: 10.1002/smi.3315. Epub 2023 Sep 19.
Existing literature indicates that academic staff experience increasing levels of work stress. This study investigated associations between day-to-day threat and challenge appraisal and day-to-day problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and seeking social support among academic office workers. This study is based on an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) design with a 15-working day data collection period utilising our self-developed STRAW smartphone application. A total of 55 office workers from academic institutions in Belgium (n = 29) and Slovenia (n = 26) were included and 3665 item measurements were analysed. Participants were asked approximately every 90 min about their appraisal of stressful events (experienced during the working day) and their coping styles. For data analysis, we used an unstructured covariance matrix in our linear mixed models. Challenge appraisal predicted problem-focused coping and threat appraisal predicted emotion-focused coping. Our findings suggest an association between threat appraisal as well as challenge appraisal and seeking social support. Younger and female workers chose social support more often as a coping style. While working from home, participants were less likely to seek social support. The findings of our EMA study confirm previous research on the relationship between stress appraisal and coping with stress. Participants reported seeking social support less while working from home compared to working at the office, making the work location an aspect that deserves further research.
现有文献表明，学术人员承受的工作压力越来越大。本研究调查了日常威胁评估和挑战评估与学术办公人员日常以问题为中心的应对方式、以情绪为中心的应对方式以及寻求社会支持之间的关联。本研究基于生态瞬时评估（EMA）设计，采用我们自行开发的STRA W智能手机应用程序，在15个工作日的数据收集期内进行。共有来自比利时（n = 29）和斯洛文尼亚（n = 26）学术机构的55名办公人员参与，共分析了3665项测量数据。参与者大约每90分钟被询问一次他们对（工作日期间经历的）压力事件的评估以及他们的应对方式。在数据分析中，我们在线性混合模型中使用了非结构化协方差矩阵。挑战评估预测了以问题为中心的应对方式，威胁评估预测了以情绪为中心的应对方式。我们的研究结果表明，威胁评估、挑战评估与寻求社会支持之间存在关联。年轻员工和女性员工更常选择社会支持作为一种应对方式。在家工作时，参与者寻求社会支持的可能性较小。我们的EMA研究结果证实了先前关于压力评估与应对压力之间关系的研究。与在办公室工作相比，参与者在家工作时寻求社会支持的次数较少，这使得工作地点成为一个值得进一步研究的方面。
