Unsworth, KL and Mason, CM (2012) Help Yourself: The Mechanisms Through Which a Self-Leadership Intervention Influences Strain. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17 (2). pp. 235-245. ISSN 1076-8998
Abstract
This research reports on two field studies which demonstrate that self-leadership training decreases strain via increases in self-efficacy and positive affect. The first, an experimental study, found that strain was reduced in the randomly assigned training group, but not in the control group. The second was a longitudinal study and supported the hypotheses that self-efficacy and positive affect mediated the effect of self-leadership training on strain. Our findings extend both self-leadership and stress management literatures by providing a theoretical framework within which the effects of self-leadership on strain can be understood. Practically speaking, our findings suggest that self-leadership training offers an individual-level preventive approach to stress management.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © American Psychological Association 2012. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. |
Keywords: | strain; stress management; self-leadership; self-efficacy; positive affect |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2016 15:10 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 17:14 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0026857 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/a0026857 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92658 |