How Work Stress Impacts Emotional Outcomes of Chinese College Teachers: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Stress Mindset and Resilience

Tao Yu, Jiayuan Li (), Lidong He and Xiaofu Pan ()
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Tao Yu: College of State Governance, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Jiayuan Li: College of International Education, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing 400031, China
Lidong He: College of State Governance, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Xiaofu Pan: College of State Governance, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 17, 1-12

Abstract: Based on the job demands-resources model and conservation of resource theory, this study investigated 456 Chinese college teachers’ work stress, stress mindset, resilience, emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect. The results of mediation analysis showed that resilience played a partial mediation role between work stress and emotional outcomes (emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect). Moreover, the results of a moderated mediation analysis showed that stress mindset moderated the relationship between work stress and resilience, and moderated the mediating effect of resilience between work stress and emotional outcomes (emotional exhaustion, positive affect, and negative affect). Specifically, work stress had a significant negative predictive effect on resilience when stress mindset is low ( β = −0.54, p < 0.001); work stress could also negatively predict resilience when the stress mindset is high ( β = −0.47, p < 0.001), but its effect decreased, and stress mindset negatively moderated the path between work stress and resilience. Finally, we discussed theoretical implications, practical implications, limitations, and future directions.

Keywords: work stress; stress mindset; resilience; emotional exhaustion; positive affect; negative affect; Chinese college teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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