Journal of Nursing & Care

Klaus-Helmut Schmidt

Publications

• Review Article
  Self-Control Demands and Job Strain in Nursing and Care: The Moderating Role of Boundary Conditions
  Author(s): Klaus-Helmut SchmidtKlaus-Helmut Schmidt
  
  Recent theoretical developments and findings in basic research suggest that, self-control demands are a unique job stressor. A series of studies among healthcare workers are reported corroborating this view. The results of literature review show that different forms of self-control demands such as impulse control, resisting distractions, overcoming inner resistances contribute significant portions of unique variance to the prediction of various indicators of job strain and interact with other forms of self-control demands. Furthermore, the relationship between self-control demands and strain is moderated by various resources like self-control capacity, affective organizational commitment, and job control. The identification of those resources offers promising starting points for the development of preventive interventions. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000244

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