ABSTRACT
Three dimensions of work stressors were assessed: work pressure, lack of job control, and role ambiguity. Work pressure assessed the frequency with which individuals perceive high job-related demands resulting from heavy workloads and responsibilities. Most models of job stress agree that various psychosocial resources and vulnerabilities may exert important stress-buffering or stress-exacerbating influences, respectively. Social support, mastery, active coping, and self-focused attention will independently moderate the relationship of work stressors, family stressors, and work-family conflict to psychological distress. This chapter addresses two general issues concerning work and family stress. The first issue was whether job stressors, family stressors, and work-family conflict make independent contributions to the prediction of psychological distress. The second issue was whether several psychosocial resources/vulnerabilities might independently moderate the relationships between work and family stressors and psychological distress.
