Swift, Tanya (2020) Self-efficacy’s Impact on Transactional Models of Stress and Coping Across Genders. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Extensive empirical evidence demonstrates that an employee’s cognitive appraisal of stressors as a threat or challenge, impacts their ensuing level of work-related stress. Transactional models of stress and coping are widely accepted and demonstrate how primary appraisal (PA), secondary appraisal (SA), and coping, influence the relationship of work-related stressors on stress outcomes. Self-efficacy has also been identified as a significant predictor in influencing the direction and strength of relationships between perceived stress and work-related stress outcomes. The aim of the study was to utilise the Revised Transactional Model (RTM; Goh, Sawang, & Oei, 2010) of stress and coping to: 1) investigate whether self-efficacy impacts on both PA, SA and their relationship with work-related stress; 2) establish whether higher levels of self-efficacy influence the model and predict lower perceptions of work-related stress; and 3) explore whether the impact of self-efficacy on the RTM is consistent across genders. This quantitative study used cross-sectional archival data drawn from surveys of 1672 employees (1101 females; 571 males) from Australia, Singapore, Japan, China, and Hungary. A theoretical base model was developed to test how self-efficacy related to PA, SA, and their relationship to work-related stress; and whether the theoretical model was consistent across genders. Path analysis was conducted utilising EQS statistical software. The results provided further verification of the RTM. Self-efficacy was found to negatively and directly influence PA, as well as positively and directly influence SA. PA positively associated with work-related stress, and SA associated negatively with work-related stress. The model was found to be consistent across genders. Higher perceptions of self-efficacy were found to associate with lower perceptions of work-related stress, indicating the value of self-efficacy’s inclusion in occupational training to minimise stress for both men and women. The research limitations, implications, along with future research recommendations and future applications are also discussed.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Yong Goh |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2025 04:32 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2025 04:32 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | transactional model; appraisal; work-related; stress; self-efficacy; gender |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52801 |
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