TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical job events, acute stress, and strain
T2 - A multiple interrupted time series
AU - Eden, Dov
N1 - Funding Information:
The findings of the present study were reported by the author in a paper entitled Effects of critical organizational events on strain among nursing students presented to Division 14 of the American Psychological Association at the annual convention in Los Angeles, August 24-28, 1981. The data were collected by Nili Halperin as part of her Masters thesis at Tel Aviv University under the author's supervision. The author is grateful to Arie Shirom and Robert D. Caplan for their helpful comments on a previous draft. The present article was written with the support of the Israel Institute of Business Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University. Requests for reprints should be sent to Dov Eden, Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
PY - 1982/12
Y1 - 1982/12
N2 - A critical job event (CJE) is defined as a time-bounded peak of performance demand made on the individual as an integral part of his job. Though such events are an important source of acute job stress and are amenable to longitudinal study, relevant research has been scant. In the present study, the effects of acute objective stress on subjective stress and on psychological and physiological strain were assessed among 39 first-year nursing students in an interrupted time series with multiple replications. Strain was measured five times, twice in anticipation of CJE interspersed by three low-stress occasions. The CJEs were providing the first comprehensive patient care and the final exam in nursing. A consistently confirmatory pattern of significantly rising and falling strain was found for anxiety, systolic blood pressure, and pulse rate; qualitative overload and serum uric acid changed as predicted four times out of five. CJE research can redress past overemphasis on chronic organizational stress and strengthen causal interpretation.
AB - A critical job event (CJE) is defined as a time-bounded peak of performance demand made on the individual as an integral part of his job. Though such events are an important source of acute job stress and are amenable to longitudinal study, relevant research has been scant. In the present study, the effects of acute objective stress on subjective stress and on psychological and physiological strain were assessed among 39 first-year nursing students in an interrupted time series with multiple replications. Strain was measured five times, twice in anticipation of CJE interspersed by three low-stress occasions. The CJEs were providing the first comprehensive patient care and the final exam in nursing. A consistently confirmatory pattern of significantly rising and falling strain was found for anxiety, systolic blood pressure, and pulse rate; qualitative overload and serum uric acid changed as predicted four times out of five. CJE research can redress past overemphasis on chronic organizational stress and strengthen causal interpretation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0030-5073(82)90223-9
DO - 10.1016/0030-5073(82)90223-9
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AN - SCOPUS:0020394958
SN - 0749-5978
VL - 30
SP - 312
EP - 329
JO - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
JF - Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
IS - 3
ER -