Abstract
This paper reports a study of resiliency to cope with workplace stress among Chinese health care workers. We adopted a qualitative-quantitative-biomarker approach to conduct interviews, focus group discussions, and a two-wave longitudinal survey. Wave 1 survey was conducted among health care workers in Hong Kong and Mainland China (N = 773). Amongst them, 287 took part in Wave 2 survey. A confirmatory factor analysis consistently supported a 9-item scale. A sub-sample's (N = 33) resiliency was positively related to salivary IgA levels (an immune marker). Results from hierarchical regressions demonstrated that resiliency measured in Wave 1 was positively related to job satisfaction, work-life balance, and quality of life; and negatively related to physical/psychological symptoms and injuries at work in Wave 2.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 770-776 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Research in Personality |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2009 |
Funding
This research was fully supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No: LU3111/04H), and portion of the paper was presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology in Athens in July 2006.
Keywords
- Resiliency
- Workplace stress
- Health care workers
- Chinese
- Positive psychology