DIVERGENT EFFECTS OF JOB CONTROL ON COPING WITH WORK STRESSORS - THE KEY ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY

This study identifies job self-efficacy as a moderating variable that map determine whether job control contributes positively or negative t o coping with work stressors. Data from two samples (health profession als and an occupationally diverse group) demonstrated similar interact ions between demands, control, and self-efficacy predicting blood pres sure, These results may reconcile the previous inconsistent and largel y method-bound support for Karasek's job demands-control model and sug gest that efforts to improve job self-efficacy may be as important to reducing the cardiovascular consequences of job stress as efforts to e nhance control.