WORK SETTING AND THE PROCESSES OF RELATIONAL SUPPORT

工作环境和关系支持流程

• 批准号: 3375909
• 负责人: ROBERT S. WEISS
• 金额: $ 17.76万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1982
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1982-04-01 至 1986-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3375909
• 关键词: administrative personnel; anxiety; coping; human middle age (35-64); interpersonal relations; interview; job performance; longitudinal human study; male; mental health; occupational psychology; psychological stressor; social support network; young adult human (21-34)

This proposal is for continuation funding of research which will have been under way for two years by the end of its current funding period. The research will by then have obtained interviews with a sample of eighty men, aged 35 to 55, employed as middle managers or in positions of equivalent responsibility as independent entrepreneurs. Three interviews spaced two weeks apart will have mapped each respondent's relational network together with the understandings underlying each important relationship, the events that have taken place within it, and the relationship's provisions and costs. They will also have identified the sources of stress and support in respondents' lives, the intensity of the stresses they have experienced, and the processes through which support has been provided. The study is intended to contribute to our understanding of the ways in which social ties function or fail to function as "support systems," and the ways in which social ties may become stressors. Beyond its concerns with social ties, the study has as its goal the identification of the sources of support and stress that together affect men's functioning and morale, whatever these might be. The respondents in the study, men whose work required continuity of high-level performance in responsible positions, are highly vulnerable to work-based stress. They must nevertheless deal with this stress in ways that will protect their continuing effectiveness in their work. In our study we are identifying how they do this. We are concerned with identifying their coping strategies, sources of support they use, and processes by which these sources achieve helpfulness. Men's ability to maintain effective functioning despite stress or adversity is an important aspect of their mental health. This research will help establish the processes maintaining positive mental health in men exposed to high levels of work stress. The present proposal requests funding for: (a) follow-up interviews which would be focused on the ways in which the respondents maintain their morale and their effectiveness despite change and pressures for change, (b) coding of responses to make quantitative statements possible, and (c) qualitative and quantitative analyses of our materials.

这项提议是为了继续资助本应是 目前的供资期限结束时，正在进行为期两年的工作。这个 到那时，研究人员将对80名男性进行样本采访， 年龄在35岁至55岁之间，担任中层管理人员或同等职位 作为独立企业家的责任。三次采访相隔两次 每隔几周就会绘制出每个受访者的关系网络 随着对每一种重要关系的理解，事件 在它内部发生的事情，以及关系的条款和 成本。他们还将确定压力和支持的来源 受访者的生活，他们经历的压力的强度， 以及提供支持的过程。 这项研究旨在帮助我们了解 哪些社会关系起到或不起到“支持系统”的作用？ 社会关系可能成为压力源的方式。超越它的担忧 对于社会关系，这项研究的目标是确定 支持和压力的来源，共同影响男性的机能和 士气，不管这些是什么。 研究中的受访者，其工作需要连续性的男性 高水平表现在负责任的职位上，极易受到 基于工作的压力。然而，他们必须以各种方式来应对这种压力。 这将保护他们在工作中的持续有效性。在我们的 我们正在研究他们是如何做到这一点的。我们关心的是 确定他们的应对策略，他们使用的支持来源，以及 这些来源获得帮助的过程。 男性在压力或逆境中保持有效运作的能力 是他们心理健康的一个重要方面。这项研究将会有所帮助 建立保持男性接触者积极心理健康的程序 高水平的工作压力。 本提案请拨经费用于：(A)后续面谈 将重点放在受访者如何保持士气上 以及它们在变化和变化压力下的有效性，(B)编码 作出答复，使定量陈述成为可能；和(C)定性 并对我们的材料进行定量分析。