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An experience sampling study of learning, affect, and the demands control support model

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posted on 2010-06-18, 15:41 authored by Kevin Daniels, Grahame Boocock, Jane Glover, Ruth Hartley, Julie HollandJulie Holland
The demands control support model (R.A. Karasek & T. Theorell, 1990) indicates that job control and social support enable workers to engage in problem-solving. In turn, problem-solving is thought to influence learning and well-being (e.g, anxious affect, activated pleasant affect). Two samples (N = 78, N = 106) provided data up to four times per day for up to five working days. We assessed the extent to which job control was used for problem-solving by measuring the extent to which participants changed aspects of their work activities to solve problems. We assessed the extent to which social support was used to solve problems by measuring the extent to which participants discussed problems to solve problems. Learning mediated the relationship between changing aspects of work activities to solve problems and activated pleasant affect. Learning also mediated the relationship between discussing problems to solve problems and activated pleasant affect. The findings indicated that how individuals use control and support to respond to problem-solving demands is associated with organizational and individual phenomena such as learning and affective well-being.

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  • Business and Economics

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  • Business

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DANIELS, K. ... et al, 2009. An experience sampling study of learning, affect, and the demands control support model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94 (4), pp.1003-1017.

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© American Psychological Association

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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2009

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This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. It was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology [© American Psychological Association] and the definitive version is available from: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/apl/

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0021-9010;1939-1854

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  • en

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