Administrator stress and coping effectiveness: Implications for administrator evaluation and development

Walter H. Gmelch; Wilbert Chan

doi:10.1007/bf00972642

Administrator stress and coping effectiveness: Implications for administrator evaluation and development

Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education ◽

10.1007/bf00972642 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 275-285 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Walter H. Gmelch ◽

Wilbert Chan

Keyword(s):

Stress And Coping ◽

Administrator Evaluation ◽

Coping Effectiveness ◽

And Coping ◽

Administrator Stress

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Daily stress and coping among emergency response officers: a case study

International Journal of Emergency Services ◽

10.1108/ijes-10-2016-0019 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 122-133 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Susana Rodrigues ◽

Mariana Kaiseler ◽

Cristina Queirós ◽

Miguel Basto-Pereira

Keyword(s):

Emergency Response ◽

Work Conditions ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Future Research ◽

Daily Stress ◽

Stress Appraisal ◽

Daily Diaries ◽

Content Type ◽

Coping Effectiveness ◽

And Coping

Purpose Police in Europe are facing increased demands and diminished resources, and this is particularly prominent among emergency response officers (EROs) working in poorer countries such as Portugal. Considering that daily stress and limited coping skills can result in detrimental consequences for officers’ health and society welfare, the purpose of this paper is to investigate stress and coping among Portuguese EROs. Design/methodology/approach EROs completed daily diaries over 11 working days. Each diary entry included an open-ended stressor, coping section and a Likert-type scale to evaluate coping effectiveness. Data were analyzed using inductive and deductive content analysis procedures. The frequency of stressors, coping and coping effectiveness were calculated. Findings EROs reported facing more operational stressors, particularly public disorder situations. However, gun situations were perceived as the most intense stressor. Emotion-focused coping (i.e. peer support) was more used than problem-focused. Despite variation in coping effectiveness in accordance to stressor experienced, longitudinal analysis suggests that problem-focused coping is more effective. Research limitations/implications Longitudinal methodologies should contemplate stress appraisal and coping effectiveness in order to fully understand stress and coping. Future studies should employ this methodology at a larger scale and over longer periods. Practical implications Intervention programs for EROs should be multidimensional, targeting work conditions and resources, stress management, and coping effectiveness. Originality/value Findings provide strong recommendations for future research and applied implications for stress prevention and effective coping interventions.

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Session 1: Introduction to Stress and Coping

10.1093/med:psych/9780195339734.003.0002 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Spinal Cord Injury ◽

Cognitive Theory ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Cord Injury ◽

Coping Effectiveness ◽

And Coping ◽

First Session

Chapter 2 outlines the first session of coping effectiveness training (CET) for spinal cord injury (SCI). This session introduces stress, common reactions to stress, and the influencers of stress, as well as the stressful effects of SCI in particular. The cognitive theory of stress and coping is also explored.

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The Coping Scales From the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000530 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 545-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Heike Eschenbeck ◽

Uwe Heim-Dreger ◽

Denise Kerkhoff ◽

Carl-Walter Kohlmann ◽

Arnold Lohaus ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Self Report ◽

Partial Metric ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽

Language Version ◽

English Speaking ◽

And Coping

Abstract. The coping scales from the Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3–8; Lohaus, Eschenbeck, Kohlmann, & Klein-Heßling, 2018 ) are subscales of a theoretically based and empirically validated self-report instrument for assessing, originally in the German language, the five strategies of seeking social support, problem solving, avoidant coping, palliative emotion regulation, and anger-related emotion regulation. The present study examined factorial structure, measurement invariance, and internal consistency across five different language versions: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. The original German version was compared to each language version separately. Participants were 5,271 children and adolescents recruited from primary and secondary schools from Germany ( n = 3,177), France ( n = 329), Russia ( n = 378), the Dominican Republic ( n = 243), Ukraine ( n = 437), and several English-speaking countries such as Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and the USA (English-speaking sample: n = 707). For the five different language versions of the SSKJ 3–8 coping questionnaire, confirmatory factor analyses showed configural as well as metric and partial scalar invariance (French) or partial metric invariance (English, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian). Internal consistency coefficients of the coping scales were also acceptable to good. Significance of the results was discussed with special emphasis on cross-cultural research on individual differences in coping.

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