ハーディネスが職場ストレスに及ぼす影響

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It has been said that environmental and individual factors cause occupational stress. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of hardiness (commitment, control and challenge) as a personality trait that could keep health under stressful situation on psychological and physical stress responses in an occupational situation.
Nine hundred fifty five office workers were requested to complete a set of questionnaires including on work stressor, hardiness, psychological and physical stress responses.
The results revealed that there were high correlations between control and helplessness, and between control and depression-anxiety. The buffering effect of hardiness was found under physical stressor, that is those who showed high scores of hardiness expressed less stress responses under physical stressor. As for other stressors, no buffering effect of hardiness was found.
The result of this study indicated that hardiness is not always effective in stressful situation, and that the buffering effect of hardiness was different from stressor to stressor.