The Efficacy of a Web-Based Stress Management Intervention for Employees Experiencing Adverse Working Conditions and Occupational Self-efficacy as a Mediator: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Work stress is highly prevalent and puts employees at risk for adverse health consequences. Web-based stress management interventions (SMIs) promoting occupational self-efficacy might be a feasible approach to aid employees to alleviate this burden and to enable them to improve an unbalanced situation between efforts and rewards at work.

Objective

The first aim of this randomized controlled trial was to investigate the efficacy of a web-based SMI for employees perceiving elevated stress levels and an effort-reward imbalance in comparison to a waitlist control (WLC) group. Second, we investigated whether the efficacy of an SMI could be explained by an increase in occupational self-efficacy and whether this personal resource enables employees to change adverse worki

SUBMITTER: Nixon P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9634524 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature