An examination of a new job stress model focusing on the development of workers' subjective career

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K24248
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0908:Society medicine, nursing, and related fields
• Research Institution: The Health Care Science Institute
• Principal Investigator: Yokouchi Nobutada 公益財団法人医療科学研究所, 研究員育成委員会, 研究員 (70845875)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 労働者 / 職業性ストレス / 仕事の経験 / メンタルヘルス / キャリア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study was to examine the role of self-construal in the relationship between job stressors and workers' well-being. First, through literature review and qualitative interviews on five workers in a Japanese private company, self-construal in work settings was reconceptualized as the worker's sense of self with a set of two developmental orientations: distinctness and interrelatedness. Second, questionnaire survey was conducted on 1250 workers in a Japanese private company, which was followed by statistical analysis. As a tentative result, high scores in either dimensions of self-construal attenuated the adverse health effects of certain job stressors.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究課題は、従業員が職場での相互作用を通じて変化する主体であること、特にキャリアを通じて自己の捉え方が変化していくことを考慮した、新たな職業性ストレスモデルの理論的基礎を提供するものであり、将来的には、従業員のキャリア発達を踏まえた職場介入の方策につながることが期待される。