The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction
Personality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with stressful events. The present paper focuses on character strengths as positive personality traits and examines two basic assumptions that were derived from a core characteristic of character strengths (i.e., to determin...
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| description | Personality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with stressful events. The present paper focuses on character strengths as positive personality traits and examines two basic assumptions that were derived from a core characteristic of character strengths (i.e., to determine how individuals deal with adversities): (1) Character strengths correlate with coping and (2) buffer the effects of work-related stress on job satisfaction. Two different samples (i.e., a mixed sample representing various occupations [N = 214] and a nurses sample [N = 175]) filled in measures for character strengths, coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction. As expected, intellectual, emotional, and interpersonal strengths were related to coping. Interpersonal strengths played a greater role for coping among nurses, as interactions with others are an essential part of their workday. Furthermore, intellectual strengths partially mediated the negative effect of work-related stress on job satisfaction. These findings open a new field for research on the role of personality in coping with work-related stress. Character strengths are trainable personal characteristics, and therefore valuable resources to improve coping with work-related stress and to decrease the negative effects of stress. Further research is needed to investigate this assumed causality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02882b55d30a4cdab3f44a722a27605f2022-12-22T02:03:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-02-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00165126544The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfactionClaudia eHarzer0Claudia eHarzer1Willibald eRuch2University of KasselUniversity of ZurichUniversity of ZurichPersonality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with stressful events. The present paper focuses on character strengths as positive personality traits and examines two basic assumptions that were derived from a core characteristic of character strengths (i.e., to determine how individuals deal with adversities): (1) Character strengths correlate with coping and (2) buffer the effects of work-related stress on job satisfaction. Two different samples (i.e., a mixed sample representing various occupations [N = 214] and a nurses sample [N = 175]) filled in measures for character strengths, coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction. As expected, intellectual, emotional, and interpersonal strengths were related to coping. Interpersonal strengths played a greater role for coping among nurses, as interactions with others are an essential part of their workday. Furthermore, intellectual strengths partially mediated the negative effect of work-related stress on job satisfaction. These findings open a new field for research on the role of personality in coping with work-related stress. Character strengths are trainable personal characteristics, and therefore valuable resources to improve coping with work-related stress and to decrease the negative effects of stress. Further research is needed to investigate this assumed causality.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00165/fullNursesstresscopingJob SatisfactionPositive PsychologyCharacter strengths |
| spellingShingle | Claudia eHarzer Claudia eHarzer Willibald eRuch The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction Frontiers in Psychology Nurses stress coping Job Satisfaction Positive Psychology Character strengths |
| title | The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction |
| title_full | The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction |
| title_fullStr | The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction |
| title_short | The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction |
| title_sort | relationships of character strengths with coping work related stress and job satisfaction |
| topic | Nurses stress coping Job Satisfaction Positive Psychology Character strengths |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00165/full |
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