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Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
On-line version ISSN 2174-0534Print version ISSN 1576-5962
Abstract
RAMOS, Valentina and JORDAO, Filomena. The relationship between work stress, sources of stress and coping strategies in public and private sectors. Rev. psicol. trab. organ. [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.1, pp.11-20. ISSN 2174-0534. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rpto.2014.11.008.
The sector has been relevant in the measurement of work stress, stressors, and coping strategies. So, our research objective was to relate these variables within the Portuguese context. We used a sample of 310 employees distributed by sector, who responded to an inventory with a general question about stress and two scales to measure stressors and coping. The data was analyzed using correlation calculations. Our results indicated no significant differences in correlations between stressor and stress by sector. However, we obtained specific significant correlation between stressors, stress, and coping itself for each sector. The existence of significant correlations between coping and stressors without the influence of stress, and between coping and stress without the influence of stressors has to be highlighted. Our study recognizes sector's role in the study of stress, showing new relationships between stressors, stress, and coping.
Keywords : Stress; Stressor; Coping; Public sector; Private sector.