Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals

Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals (Social Sciences in Asia) Summary:

By Chan, K. (ed.) (June 27, 2007)

• Publisher:   BRILL
• Number Of Pages:   264
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   9004154809
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9789004154803

Product Description: 

Based on a large-scale survey, indepth interviews and comparative analyses, this book offers deep analyses ofwork stress and coping among seven professional groups: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. The book makes practical recommendations for personal, organizational and societal intervention.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ...................................................................... vii

Chapter One Introduction: Society, Stress and Coping:

The Dialectic of Person-Environment Fit and Human

Adaptation .............................................................................. 1

Chan Kwok-bun

Chapter Two Engineers in a Newly Industrialising

Economy .................................................................................. 19

Hing Ai-yun

Chapter Three Work Stress and Psychological Well-Being

among Nurses ........................................................................ 33

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 ...................................................... 43

Boey Kam-weng, Chan Kwok-bun and Ko Yiu-chung

Chapter Five Stress on Patrol: Stress and Coping among

Police Officers ........................................................................ 61

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 ................................................................................ 85

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 .................................. 101

Ko Yiu-chung, Chan Kwok-bun and Gina Lai

Chapter Eight Work Stress, Work Satisfaction and Coping

among Life Insurance Agents ................................................ 125

Chan Kwok-bun

Chapter Nine Institutional Context and Stress Appraisal

among Life Insurance Agents ................................................ 147

Gina Lai, Chan Kwok-bun and Ko Yiu-chung

Chapter Ten Work Stress among Six Professional Groups:

A Comparison ........................................................................ 167

Chan Kwok-bun, Gina Lai and Ko Yiu-chung

Chapter Eleven Coping Resources, Coping Strategies

and Work Stress among Six Professional Groups:

A Comparative Analysis ........................................................ 203

Gina Lai, Chan Kwok-bun and Ko Yiu-chung

Contributors ................................................................................ 241

References .................................................................................... 243

Subject Index .............................................................................. 257

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