[Study on relationship between coping resources and strain in mental workers]
Yuan-Mei Xiao1, Zhi-Ming Wang, Mian-Zhen Wang
1Institute of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. xym72@163.net
Objective:
To study the effects of mental workers' coping resources on their strain.
Methods:
Strain (vocational strain, psychological strain, interpersonal strain, physical strain) and coping resources (recreation, self-care, social support, rational coping) were measured on 3379 mental workers with personal strain questionnaire (PSQ) and personal resources questionnaire (PRQ).
Results:
There existed significantly negative correlations between PRQ and PSQ (P < 0.01). In PRQ, social support (SS) and rational coping (RC) had the closest relationships with PSQ. In the items of SS, those related to feeling support had more remission on strain. In the items of RC, those related to reasonable arrangement of time and anti-interference had more remission on strain. In the items of recreation (RE), those related to self-determination had more effects on the remission of strain, while indulging in watching TV could cause the strength of strain, and there was a positive correlation between watching TV and strain (P < 0.01). In the items of self-care (SC), sufficient sleeping had the most effects on the remission of strain in the all 40 items of PRQ, while not being immersed in contemplation had a positive correlation with strain (P < 0.01).
Conclusion:
Enhancing coping resources, especially sufficient sleeping, feeling support and reasonable arrangement of time, were the important measures for the remission of mental worker' strain.
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