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Managers' occupational stress in China : the role of self-efficacy Managers' occupational stress in China : the role of self-efficacy

Changqin LU

Oi Ling SIU Lingnan University, Hong Kong, [email protected]

Cary L. COOPER

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Managers' occupational stress in China: The role of self-efficacyl

Dr. Chang-qin Lu Assistant Professor

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ABSTRACT

The role of self-efficacy, an individual difference variable, in occupational stress

research is seldom discussed, and is even rarely examined in Chinese societies. This

study investigates the relationships between stressors, managerial self-efficacy (MSE)

and work-related strains (job satisfaction, physical strain, and psychological strain). A

to凶 of 450 enterprise managers in eight cities of the People's Republic of China

completed a battery of structured questionn組res. The results of the study generally

support that total stressors was negatively related to job satisfaction, physical strain,

and psychological strain. Furthermore, MSE w也 statistically significantly related to

仙也ns in 出at respondents wi也 high levels of MSE reported higher levels of job

satisfaction, lower levels of physical strain and psychological strain than did those

with low MSE. Related to the moderating effects of MSE on stressor-strain

relationship, only significant moderating e能ct was found in predicting physìcal straìn,

as demonstrated by a series of hierarchical regressions while controlling for age,

tenure, and position levels and educationallevels.

Key words: Occupational Stress, Manager, Self-efficacy, Stressors, Strains, and

China.

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INTRODUCTION

Occupational stress has been noted 品 an increasing problem for employees in

Western industria1ized societies because stress is costly. Undeniably, stress in

workplace can have deleterious e宜ects on individual's well-being as well as negative

effects on organizational outcomes such as perfonnance and tumover. It has been

位gued that almost a11 occupationa1 stress research and theories were developed and

empirically tested in Western industria1ized countries (S凹, 2002; Xie , 1996)

However, the problem of occupational stress is becoming serious for countries

undergoing enonnous economic and socia1 changes. It is therefore irnportant to do

some occupational stress research in Chinese societies, which will give theoretical and

practica1 suggestions to stress management for both individuals and organizations

Most of occupational stress research has focused on demonstrating relationships

between stressors and strains, but has lagged behind in documenting the role of

individual differences in the stress processes (Jex, Bliese, Buzzell,& Primeasu, 2001)

Stress does not always directly result from the source of pressure itself, but rather

from the perception of that press叮e. Therefore, individual difference variables that

might relate to perceptions should be given more attention in occupational s仕ess

research

One general class of individual difference variables 出at has been examined over

the years from study to study is self-belief. These studies have provided some support

for the idea that stressors are less detrimental when individuals have more positive

self-perceptions. The dominant theoηin most of the past studies is the job

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demands-control model which focus on the role of perceived job control in stress

process (K缸部ek, 1979). As Litt (1 988) suggested that self-efficacy is critical because

it affects an individual's ability and willingness to exercise contro l. Some authors have

also suggested 由at perceived self-efficacy must be added to the demands-control

model of occupational stress in order to improve its predictability (e.g., Bandura, 1997;

Schaubroeck & Merritt, 1997). High job demands with opportunity to exercise control

over various facets of the work environment is unperturbed to jobholders with high

levels of perceived self-efficacy, but more stressful to those of low perceived

self-efficacy. For this reason, any efforts to reduce occupational stress by increasing

job control without raising efficacy to manage the increasing responsibilities will do

more harrn than good (Bandura, 1997).

Self-efficacy is a critical component of social cognitive theoη, which is a primary

inf1uence on human thought, motivation, and action. Bandura (1986) defined

perceived self-efficacy as a construct, which is concerned with people's beliefs about

their capabilities to organize and execute, designated courses of action. According to

the above defmition, self-efficacy is not concemed with the skills or abilities one

possesses, but rather the judgment of what one can do with these. Essentially,

self-efficacy refers to a sense of competence to control over one' s environment. It is

logical to conclude that stressors would be much more threatening to those who do

have low confidence in performing their job tasks . Presumably then, self-efficacy

impacts stressor-strain relationships because individuals with high self-efficacy are

more likely to believe they can rnaintain high levels of job performance despite the

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presence of challenging job-related stressors. Another way 伽t self-efficacy may

impact stressor-strain relationships is how to cope with stressors in the workplace

(Leiter, 1992). It has been shown that individuals with high self-efficacy tend to use

problem-focused or active coping strategies, whereas the coping strategies of those

with low self-e缸icacy tend to be more emotion-focused or avoidant, and have greater

tendency to woηy about job-related stressors. ln a review provided by Semmer (1 996),

people who have the tendency to employee problem-focused coping tend to report

less physical and psychological strains. Some authors have found that self-efficacy do

not only directly impact on individuals' strains (O 'Neill & Mone, 1998; Saks, 1994;

Tang, Au, Schwarzer, & Schmi包, 2001), but also a moderating effect on

stressor-strain relationships (Jex & Gudanows徊, 1992; Schaubroeck & Merritt, 1997;

Siu, Cheng, & Lu, 2003).

Despite the intuitive appeal of self-efficacy 臼 a moderator of stress肘-strain

relations, there have been few empirical tests of 血is moderating effect. Furthermore,

出e results have been mixed. For examp1e, Jex and Gudanowski (1 992) found little

evidence 出at self-efficacy moderated relations between stressors and strains. More

recently, some authors (e.g., Jex & Bliese, 1999; Schaubroeck, L缸n, & Xie, 2000;

Shaubroeck & Merritt, 1997) have found that self-e伍cacy moderated several (but not

all) stressor-strain relationships (Jex & Bliese, 1999; Schaubroeck et al., 2000).

The more serious limitation in most of above studies on self-efficacy's moderation

in stressor-strain relationships is self-efficacy measurement. They mainly focused on

general self-efficacy or related general self-efficacy. Some authors elaborated

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self-efficacy 部 bo也 a state and a stable personality trait that can generalize 台omone

situation to the next (e.g. , Chen, Gully, & Eden, 2001; Eden,1996; Schwarzer, Babler,

K wiatek, Schroder, & Zhan皂, 1997; Shere, Madd眩, Mercandante, Prentice-Dunn, &

Rogers, 1982), and developed the general self-e伍cacy scale, which has served many

populations and situations. But in the development of the self-efficacy construct,

Bandura (1986; 1997) has deliberately avoided the trait approach of studying

self-efficacy, and suggested 出at self-efficacy should refer to be!iefs about specific

behaviors in specific situations (specific self-efficacy). Nearly all authors agreed that

these general self-efficacy measures often have weak predictive va1ue when comp缸ed

to self-e伍cacy measures 血at are matched to specific domains of activity (e.g.,

Bandura, 1997; Earley & Lituchy, 1991).

THE PRESENT STUDY

It is claimed 血at efficacy is shaped through socia1ization processes based on

cultural context (Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Triandis, 1989). As iterated by Bandura

(1 996) , despite the cultural generality in self-efficacy effl凹的, culture inf1uences ways

of how efficacy be!iefs are molded. For instance, Oettingen (1 995) found 也別 East

Berlin children had a lower sense of personal efficacy 也an did those in West Berlin. It

is argued that self-efficacy ref1ects individualistic Westem va1ues, and the buffering

effects of self-efficacy may only be evident in individua1istic cultures (e.g. , Earley,

1994; Oettingen, 1995; Schaubroeck et 刻, 2000). Nevertheless, Bandura (1 996)

stresses 出at perceived efficacy is valued, not b巴cause of reverence for individualism,

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but because a strong sense of perceived efficacy is vital for success regardless of

whether it is achieved individually or by group members who put credits to collective

terrns. Not surprisingly, in order to successful1y make one adapting to dramatic

economic and social change, people in traditional collective societies have to develop

or maintain higher level of personal efficacy than before. Notab旬, a recent study by

Egri and Ralston (2001) has demonstrated that Chinese youths are more similar to U.S

youths than they 缸e to their Chinese elders. Silbereisen and Wiesner (2002) have also

revealed no difference of self-efficacy between East and West Germany.

The present study is one of the very few which tests the moderating role of specific

self-efficacy in occupational stress research in the People's Republic of China, a

society that is culturally different from those that have been studied thus t缸. Since

China has the largest workforce in the world and plays an increasingly important role

in the world economy, it is imperative to explore the generalizability of Westem

managerial theories and practice to China and to pinpoint the differences between

China and the Westem societies σE咒, 1996). Lu (2001) provided support for the main

effects of self-efficacy on job performance and work attitudes, but he did not

investigate the moderating role of self-efficacy in stress processes

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of self-efficacy on

occupational stress in China. Specifically, we examined relationships between

甜的sors , MSE and strain indices (job satisfaction, psychological strain, and physical

symptoms), and the role ofMSE as a stress moderator was also examined

Based on previous literature reviewed, the following hypotheses were proposed

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Hypothesis 1: High levels of total stressors will be associated with low levels of job

satisfaction, high levels of psychological strain and physical strain.

Hypothesis 2: Low levels of self-efficacy will be associated with low levels of job

satisfaction, high levels of psychological strain and physical strain.

Hypothesis 3: Self-e伍cacy will moderate the impact of job-related stressors. More

specifically, self-efficacy will interact with total stressors to determine strains, in 出at

the negative effects of total stressors on strains wiU be greater when level of

self-efficacy is low than when it is high.

METHOD

Subjects

Data were collected from enterprise managers in Beijing City, Urumchi City of

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Qinqdao City and Yanta City of Shangdong

Province, Guangzhou City and Shenzhen City of Guangdong Province, Heifei City

and Fuyang City of Anhui Province from October 2000 to June 200 1. Beijing City,

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Shangdong Province are in the northem

p缸t of the People's Republic of China. Guangdong Province is in the southem, and

Anhui Province is in the central 訂閱. The sample was drawn by a purposive sampling

method. A total of 580 questionnaires were distributed by the first author to managers

of different kinds of organizations in 血e field , and 450 valid questionnaires were

returned in the end, making a response rate of 77.59%. The sample consisted of 305

men (67 .9%) and 145 women (32 .1 %), aged between 19 and 59 years old. The

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average age was about 36 ye訂s . The average ye缸s of management experience w部

about 9.4 (SD = 7.25). A tot叫 of 53.8% ofthe samples were drawn from state-owned

sectors, 38% from private sectors, 4.9% from joint ventures, and 3.3% from other

sectors. The education levels of the sample were varied: from junior high school

education (2%), senior high school education (1 4.4%), vocational or technical college

certificates (30 .4%), bachelor's degree (49.5%), to master's degree (3.6%) .

Measures

Total stressors. The shortened version of the Sources of stress scale of the

Occupational Stress Indicator-2 (OSI-2) (Williams & Cooper, 1996) was adapted. The

reliability and validity of this shortened version have been demonstrated ín Chinese

societies (Siu, Lu, & Cooper, 1999; Yu, Sparks, & Cooper, 1998). Siu (2002) has also

found 也at this shortened scale is a reliable measure. To avoid a too lengthy

questionnaire, 12 items were extracted for use from this scale which measured the six

sources of stress. They were items 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13 , 16,17, 20 , 31 , 37, 39. The

rationale for choosing these items is that 出ey are more applicable to managers in

Chinese context. Example items 訂e : factors intrinsic to the job (e.g., having to work

long hours), management role (e.g. , conflicting job tasks and demands in the role 1

play) , relationships with others (e.g. , lack of social support by people at work), career

and achievement (e.g. , under promotion--working at a level below my level of ability),

organisational structure and climate (e.g. , morale and organisational climate),

home/work interface (e.g. , demands my work makes and its conflicting demands on

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my relationship with spouse/children). Respondents were asked to indicate whether 個

item was a source of pressure on a 6-point scale ranging from "veηdefinitely not a

source" (1) to "very definitely a source"(6). The score of the index for occupational

stressors is the summation of scores of all six 蛇essors (high score = higher level of

pressures 血at arise from occupational s仕的sors) . The Cronbach's alpha for this scale

is .83 .

Strains. Three scales were used to measure strains. They are: (a) Job

sαtisfaction scale: measuring "Satisfaction towards the job itself' . The modified

version of MSQ (Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire) (Wei凹, Dawis, Lofquist, &

England, 1966) w臼 used to develop a 5-item job satisfaction measure, and was

proven to be reliable and valid in Chinese societies (Lin, Fang, & Zhang, 2002). Each

item is rated on a 6-point scale ranging from “ve可 unsatisfied"( 1) 的“very

satisfied"(6) (high score = high job satisfaction). Example item is “The degree to

which you are satisfied with yo山 job"; (b) Physical strain scale: measuring "Physical

symptoms". The modified version of Well-being subscale of the OSI-2 was used to

develop 也is four-item physical strain measure, which was proven to be reliable and

valid in Chinese societies (Ma & Bao,1999). Example item is “Feeling unaccountably

tired or exhausted"; (c) Psychological striαn scale . measuring "State of mind" and

"Resilience" . The modified version of the Well-being subscale of OSI-2 was used to

develop 出is 7-item psychological strain measure, which was also proven to be

reliable and valid in Chinese societies (Ma & Bao , 1999). Each item of bo出 physical

and psychological strain scales was rated on a 6-point scale, ranging from “very

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true"(6) 的“vey untrue"(l), with respective 凶gh score denoting more physical and

psychological strains. The Cronbach's alphas for the three scales are .78,肘 , and .85

respectively.

Managerial Self-φcacy. Based on a literature review and the managerial

self-efficacy questionnaire developed by Robertson and Sadri ' s (1 993), a Chinese

version of managerial self-efficacy scale (MSE) with 24 items was developed by the

first author. The CF A (confirrnatory factor analysis) results show a good fit model

with reasonably high goodness-of-fit indexes (The value of X2/df = 2.22, GFI = .91 ,

AGFI = .89, CFI = O.兒, NFI = 0.89, RMSEA = 0.05) (Kelloway, 1998), and

correlation between MSE and managers ' year-end performance was .43, which

showed 也at 也e MSE was a reliabe and valid measure (Lu, 2001). The Chinese

version of the MSE consisted of six subscales which assessed managers ' level of

task-related confidence on the following six essential managerial job duties:

supervision (e.g. , give subordinates constructive feedback) , harmonizing (e.g. ,

negotiate with others on order to reach an agreement or solution) , information

handling (e.g., gather inforrnation from sources outside organization), planning and

organizing (e.g., analyse any problems arsing in unit or organization),

problem-solving/ innovation(e.g. , implement changes in work procedure, work tasks

and work behavior), monitoring(e.g., maintain or ensure the maintenance of

appropriate record of the unit or organization). Each item of this scale was rated on a

10-point scale (O=total抄 unconfident to 9=totally confident) with respective high

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score denoting higher levels of confidence in completing the core managerial tasks.

The Cronbach' s alpha for this scale is .93 .

Demographic inforrnation was also collected inc1uding age, gender, education,

occupation, tenure (years in the current job), and job level (position in the current

organization, with high score denoting high position).

RESULTS

Table 1 presents the means, standard deviations of the variables and their

inter-correlations. Most of the relationships between occupational stressors, MSE and

strains are significant and are in the expected direction except the relationship

between occupational stress (total 甜的sors) and job satisfaction. Specifically, total

stressors was positively related to physical and psychological strains, whereas total

stressors was not found to be related to job satisfaction significantly. Therefore,

Hypothesis 1 can only be partially suppo巾d . Table 1 also shows that MSE was not

only positively related to job satisfaction but also negatively related to physical and

psychological strains. Therefore, H2 is fully supported. As far as demographic

variables are concemed, age, management tenure, management position levels and

educational levels were significantly correlated with some strains, with older

managers reported more job satisfaction, and managers with more management

experience and higher educationallevels reported less psychological strain.

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A series of hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to test the moderating

e在ects of MSE on stressor-strain relationships when job satisfaction, physical strain

and psychological straÎn were regressed on in sep缸ate regression analysis. Prior to

perforrning the hierarchical regression analysis, demographic variables were

examined to test for any confounding effects. Only age, management tenure, position

levels and educational levels were found to be statistically significant in predicting the

outcome variables, therefore these variables were controlled for in the regression

ana1ysis. By regressing the dependent variables (i.e. job satisfaction, physical strain

and psychological strain) on the independent variables separately in a hierarchical

manner, three steps were conducted: the demographic variables were entered first and,

in the second step, total stressors (TS) was entered. ln the third step, MSE was entered

ln the fourth step, TS x MSE was entered

The results depicted in Table 2 show that MSE moderated the relationship

between total 甜的sors and physical strain significantly (戶= 1. 15 , F = 6.64, p < .01)

Therefore, H3 can only be partially supported

Following Cohen and Cohen (1 983), the be阻 value and constant of the moderated

regression equation obtained at Step 4 were used to plot the regression of physical

strain on MSE at two levels of stress for managers: high stress (+ 1 SD above the

sample mean), and low stress (-1 SD below the sample mean) (see Figure 1). Figure 1

shows 由前, irrespective of their MSE , managers reported less physical symptoms

when the total stress level was low. An increase in stress added physical strain for

respondents with low MSE. However, a high level of MSE could buffer the negative

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e旺ect of stress on physica1 strain. Respondents with strong high level of MSE could

maintain a relatively lower level of physica1 strain even when s甘ess levels were high.

Hence, MSE buffered 出e effect of stress on physical strain.

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DISCUSSION

According to the results obtained from this study, stressors and MSE were proved

to be determinants of job satisfaction, physical s甘ain and psychologica1 strains. These

results corroborate previous studies conducted in Westem and Chinese societies (e.g.,

Schaubroeck et al., 2000; Siu, 2002; Siu et al., 2003; Siu, et al., 1999; Siu, Spector,

Cooper, Lu, & Yu, 2002). Furthermore, the present study provides 阿tial support to

previous findings 出at self-efficacy significantly moderates the effect of stressor on

physica1 strain (e.g. , Jex & Bliese, 1999).

However, unlike previous studies (e.g. , Jex & Bliese, 1999; Schaubroeck et 泣,

2000), the moderating effect of self-efficacy on relationship between stressor and job

satisfaction was rather weak. One possible reason is that managers in the PRC often

have lower job satisfaction than other occupations since challenging goals are

inevitable. Nowadays, as the PRC has entered the World Trade Organization (WTO),

due to occupational characteristics, managers may have got used to the experience of

high levels of job-related stressors. Perhaps the perception of high levels of stressors

may not necessarily lead to lower levels of job satisfaction. This is perhaps the

explanation for the non-significant relationship found between stressors and job

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satisfaction in the present study (see Table 1). Another possible explanation for this is

也at the reliability of the scale for measuring job satisfaction is relatively lower than

other scales. Future research is needed to replicate similar studies. The present study

did not consistently provide suppo口 for the positive buffering effects of self-efficacy

on relationship between stressors and psychological strain, which also needs further

investigations in the future

In sum, we may conclude 企om the results obtained from this study, like previous

studies (e.g. , Jex & Bliese, 1999; Schaubroeck et 泣, 2000), that self-efficacy is an

important variable in the study of occupational stress. Specifically, high levels of

self-efficacy were associated with self-reported higher levels of job satisfaction, lower

levels of physical strain and psychological strain than did those with lower levels of

self-efficacy; and individuals with higher levels of self-efficacy had lower levels of

physical s甘ain despite the presence of challenging job-related stressor生:Examining

the effects of self-efficacy on occupational stress could extend our knowledge and

understanding of the role of self-efficacy in stress processes, which would also extend

the domain of self-efficacy and theories in occupational stress. It follows that, as

argued by Leiter (1 992), self-efficacy is one of the central individual difference

variables, which deserves more attention in future research of occupational stress. In

terms of practical implications, as suggested by recent research evidence (e.g. , Choi,

Price, & Vinokur, 2003 ; Malone, 2001), senior management should conduct more

training programs aimed at changing employees' efficacy belie品, which in turn

al1eviate their occupational stress level

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There are several limitations of the study. It should be kept in mind 曲的 these data

all carne from self二reported manner. One cannot draw causal conc1usions, and there is

the concern about possible percept-percept bias. The sarnple population might lack

generalization to other professions. It is more difficult to generalize the results to a

wider population of workforce in the PRC or other Chinese societies. In addition,

longitudinal data would be more useful for examining causal hypotheses in the fu仙re .

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Table 1. Means, Standard Deviations, and Inter-correlations among Variables

N Mean SD 2 4 6 9 1.1S 434 14.08 2.43 2.PhS 421 13 .73 4.48 -.19 3.PsS 420 23.68 6.76 -.18" .67 4.TS 407 44.75 9.12 -.02 .17" .20 5.MSE 434 182.66 24 .63 .24 -.13 -.15 .18 6.AGE 381 35.63 8.59 .12' -.03 -.07 .01 .11 7.TEN 370 9.08 7.25 .10 -.01 -.13 -.03 .11 .71 8.POS 426 na na .11' .05 -.08 -.05 .17" .54" .32 9.EDU 404 na na -.05 -.10 -.18 -.12 .08 .06 -.06 .28

Note. TS-total stresso悶, JS一job satisfaction, PhS-physical strain, PsS - psychological strain,

MSE-managerial self-e伍cacy, TEN-ten叮e, POS-position, EDU-education level

na - not applicable

... Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)

.. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

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