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Stress among nurses: a multi‐nation test of the demand‐control‐support model

Vishwanath V. Baba (DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Louise Tourigny (Management Department, College of Business & Economics, University of Wisconsin‐Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA)
Xiaoyun Wang (I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
Terri Lituchy (John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Silvia Inés Monserrat (Facultad de Cs. Económicas, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Tandil, Argentina)

Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal

ISSN: 1352-7606

Publication date: 25 July 2013

Abstract

Purpose

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of job demand, job control, and supervisory support on stress among nurses in China, Japan, Argentina, and the Caribbean using the Job demand‐control (JDC) and the Job demand‐control‐support (JDCS) models.

Design/methodology/approach

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The authors have employed a comparative research design, cross‐sectional survey methodology with convenient random sampling, and a commonly used statistical analytic strategy.

Findings

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The results highlight that job demand, job control, and supervisory support are important variables in understanding stress among nurses. This has been corroborated in China, Japan, Argentina, and the Caribbean. Based on their findings and what is available in the literature, the authors report that the JDCS model has universal significance albeit it works somewhat differently in different contexts.

Originality/value

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This study's contribution comes from its comparative nature, theoretical anchor, its use of one of the most popular models of stress, its focus on a profession that is demonstrably stressed, its use of common measures and an established analytic strategy. The study's findings underscore the cross‐cultural usefulness and application of the JDCS model along with its threshold and substitution effects and limiting conditions.

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Citation

Baba, V.V., Tourigny, L., Wang, X., Lituchy, T. and Inés Monserrat, S. (2013), "Stress among nurses: a multi‐nation test of the demand‐control‐support model", Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 301-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCM-02-2012-0012

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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