Findlay, Lisa (2015) Emotional and Instrumental Social Support Seeking and the Revised Transactional Model of Stress and Coping. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
The workplace is a common environment for stress to occur and with the vast scale and rapid pace of globalisation it is understandable as to why. The detrimental impact that occupational stress can have on an individual include both psychological and physical health problems. A more comprehensive understanding of the transaction between an individual and the environment is necessary and can be achieved by exploring cognitive, emotional and behavioural constructs of stress. To expand on current research and stress-coping theories, having a multicultural perspective is imperative as the globalisation effects within the workplace can involve individuals from differing cultures. The interaction that an individualist or collectivist culture can have with beliefs, values and norms can affect an individual’s appraisal process of stressors and the perceived appropriateness of coping responses. The current longitudinal study examined the cultural paradigms of individualism and collectivism and the impact of instrumental and emotional social support seeking behaviour on the components of the stress and coping processes. The Revised Transactional Model (RTM) developed by Goh, Sawang and Oei (2010) was used in conjunction with data received from 164 employed participants from Australia and 124 participants from China. The participants completed two surveys four weeks a part that were comprised of the Primary Appraisal Scale, Multi-faceted Control Scale, Job Affective Well-being Scale and Brief COPE. Path analysis was used to determine four acceptable models reflecting instrumental social support seeking, emotional social support seeking and culture. All four models included either emotional or instrumental social support seeking and showed that both Australian and Chinese individuals experience an increase in stress at time two.
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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 Wah Goh |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2025 00:49 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2025 00:49 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | The workplace is a common environment for stress to occur and with the vast scale and rapid pace of globalisation it is understandable as to why. The detrimental impact that occupational stress can have on an individual include both psychological and physical health problems. A more comprehensive understanding of the transaction between an individual and the environment is necessary and can be achieved by exploring cognitive, emotional and behavioural constructs of stress. To expand on current research and stress-coping theories, having a multicultural perspective is imperative as the globalisation effects within the workplace can involve individuals from differing cultures. The interaction that an individualist or collectivist culture can have with beliefs, values and norms can affect an individual’s appraisal process of stressors and the perceived appropriateness of coping responses. The current longitudinal study examined the cultural paradigms of individualism and collectivism and the impact of instrumental and emotional social support seeking behaviour on the components of the stress and coping processes. The Revised Transactional Model (RTM) developed by Goh, Sawang and Oei (2010) was used in conjunction with data received from 164 employed participants from Australia and 124 participants from China. The participants completed two surveys four weeks a part that were comprised of the Primary Appraisal Scale, Multi-faceted Control Scale, Job Affective Well-being Scale and Brief COPE. Path analysis was used to determine four acceptable models reflecting instrumental social support seeking, emotional social support seeking and culture. All four models included either emotional or instrumental social support seeking and showed that both Australian and Chinese individuals experience an increase in stress at time two. |
| 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/52319 |
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