Acikdeniz, Merve (2020) The influence of perceived social support on social support seeking across culture. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Occupational stress detrimentally affects the well-being of workers and consequently their
productivity, so it is important to understand the processes that lead to stress and coping in
the workplace. Social support seeking (SSS) is one coping option for individuals
experiencing stress, but the individual’s perceived availability of social support (PSS) from
their friends, family, and colleagues may influence their appraisal of their stressful situation
and their subsequent SSS coping behaviours. An individual’s identification with the
individualism-collectivism dimensions could also influence this process. Path analysis was
conducted on two groups of adult workers from five countries, who were categorised by their
scores on the individualism-collectivism dimensions: a highly individualistic group, and a
highly collectivistic group. The analysis aimed to see how PSS impacted on the stress
processes leading to SSS for both groups within the revised transactional model of
occupational stress and coping, and to compare the models of the groups to see whether
higher identification with individualism or collectivism resulted in a similar or different stress
process leading to the use of SSS. Results indicated that higher PSS both directly and
indirectly led to increased SSS for both groups, and that the two groups differed in their stress
processes, with perceived control over the stressor being an important differentiating factor
between the groups. The results of the study have potential implications for stress
management interventions in the workplace, and for the tailoring of these interventions to the
diverse groups of employees who make up the modern organisational context.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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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 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2025 06:45 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2025 06:45 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Transactional model; occupational stress; coping; social support; individualism, collectivism |
| 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/52096 |
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