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Stress-Preventive Management Competencies, Psychosocial Work Environments, and Affective Well-Being: A Multilevel, Multisource Investigation

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  • Stefano Toderi

    (Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, 40126 Bologna, Italy)

  • Cristian Balducci

    (Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, 40126 Bologna, Italy)

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The Management Competencies for Preventing and Reducing Stress at Work framework represents one of the few tailored models of leadership for work stress prevention purposes, but it has never been empirically evaluated. The aim of this study was to investigate whether supervisors’ stress-preventive management competencies, as measured by the Stress Management Competencies Indicator Tool (SMCIT), are related to employees’ affective well-being through psychosocial work environmental factors. To this end, multilevel structural equation modelling (MSEM) was developed and tested, including data provided by both supervisors and employees. Supervisors ( n = 84) self-assessed their stress-preventive management competencies (i.e., being respectful and responsible, managing and communicating existing and future work, reasoning and managing difficult situations, and managing the individual within the team) with a previously validated reduced version of the SMCIT. The supervised employees ( n = 584) rated job content (e.g., job demands) and work context (e.g., role clarity) psychosocial factors and their job-related affective well-being. Supervisors’ job-related affective well-being was also included in the tested model. The results revealed that the stress-preventive competencies factor was related to employees’ affective well-being through the psychosocial work environment only when the latter was operationalized by means of contextual work factors. Supervisors’ affective well-being was related to their stress-preventive competencies, but it was not related to employees’ affective well-being. We discuss the implications of the results obtained.

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  • Stefano Toderi & Cristian Balducci, 2018. "Stress-Preventive Management Competencies, Psychosocial Work Environments, and Affective Well-Being: A Multilevel, Multisource Investigation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-16, February.
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    1. Paul Litchfield & Cary Cooper & Christine Hancock & Patrick Watt, 2016. "Work and Wellbeing in the 21st Century," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-11, October.
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