Volume 25, Issue 22 p. 1973-1995

Stressful Job Demands and Worker Health: An Investigation of the Effects of Self-Monitoring¹

Marilyn L. Fox,

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Marilyn L. Fox

Department of Management Mankato State University

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Deborah J. Dwyer,

Deborah J. Dwyer

Department of Management University of Toledo

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Marilyn L. Fox,

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Marilyn L. Fox

Department of Management Mankato State University

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Deborah J. Dwyer,

Deborah J. Dwyer

Department of Management University of Toledo

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First published: November 1995

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1995.tb01827.x

Citations: 9

A version of this paper was presented at the Midwest Academy of Management, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1991. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support contributed for this study by the deArce Memorial Fund and the Department of Management at the University of Toledo. We also thank John Schaubroeck and Michael Hitt, as well as two anonymous reviewers, for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Abstract

The hypothesis that self-monitoring would moderate the relationship between work stressors and health was tested on a sample of 136 registered nurses. Results showed that subjects who were more other-directed and who were more concerned with situational appropriateness had more mental and physical distress when exposed to higher levels of work stressors.

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