STRESSOR AND PERSONAL VARIABLES IN THE COMMUTING EXPERIENCE

The past few years have seen an increase in studies on the effects of commuting stress on various measures of strain. In particular, commuti ng impedance, a combination of time and distance between home and work , has been suggested as the independent variable that best describes t he commuting experience. As demographic characteristics have been hypo thesized as affecting strain, data were collected on personal variable s and mode of transportation. Presents results from subjects in the pr esent study consisting of 200 employees of a service organization near Tel Aviv, Israel. Whereas results verified the impact of commuting im pedance on strain measures related to the commuting experience, the as sociation between personal variables and strain was found to be incons istent. Although the subjects were drawn from one organization only, t hey manifested many of the commuting patterns observed in other wester n nations. Proposes several suggestions for investigating the relation ship among commuting stress and strain variables in future studies.