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Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age
Stress is related to goals being thwarted. Arguably, protecting one’s self, both in terms of personal self-esteem and in terms of social self-esteem, is among the most prominent goals people pursue. Although this line of thought is hardly disputed, it does not play the prominent role in occupational...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32647746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41542-019-00041-5 |
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author | Semmer, Norbert K. Tschan, Franziska Jacobshagen, Nicola Beehr, Terry A. Elfering, Achim Kälin, Wolfgang Meier, Laurenz L. |
author_facet | Semmer, Norbert K. Tschan, Franziska Jacobshagen, Nicola Beehr, Terry A. Elfering, Achim Kälin, Wolfgang Meier, Laurenz L. |
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description | Stress is related to goals being thwarted. Arguably, protecting one’s self, both in terms of personal self-esteem and in terms of social self-esteem, is among the most prominent goals people pursue. Although this line of thought is hardly disputed, it does not play the prominent role in occupational health psychology that we think it deserves. Stress-as-Offense-to-Self theory focuses on threats and boosts to the self as important aspects of stressful, and resourceful, experiences at work. Within this framework we have developed the new concepts of illegitimate tasks and illegitimate stressors; we have investigated appreciation as a construct in its own right, rather than as part of larger constructs such as social support; and we propose that the threshold for noticing implications for the self in one’s surroundings typically is low, implying that even subtle negative cues are likely to be appraised as offending, as exemplified by the concept of subtly offending feedback. Updating the first publication of the SOS concept, the current paper presents its theoretical rationale as well as research conducted so far. Research has covered a variety of phenomena, but the emphasis has been (a) on illegitimate tasks, which now can be considered as an established stressor, and (b) on appreciation, showing its importance in general and as a core element of social support. Furthermore, we discuss implications for further research as well as practical implications of an approach that is organized around threats and boosts to the self, thus complementing approaches that are organized around specific conditions or behaviors. |
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spelling | pubmed-73287752020-07-07 Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age Semmer, Norbert K. Tschan, Franziska Jacobshagen, Nicola Beehr, Terry A. Elfering, Achim Kälin, Wolfgang Meier, Laurenz L. Occup Health Sci Review Article Stress is related to goals being thwarted. Arguably, protecting one’s self, both in terms of personal self-esteem and in terms of social self-esteem, is among the most prominent goals people pursue. Although this line of thought is hardly disputed, it does not play the prominent role in occupational health psychology that we think it deserves. Stress-as-Offense-to-Self theory focuses on threats and boosts to the self as important aspects of stressful, and resourceful, experiences at work. Within this framework we have developed the new concepts of illegitimate tasks and illegitimate stressors; we have investigated appreciation as a construct in its own right, rather than as part of larger constructs such as social support; and we propose that the threshold for noticing implications for the self in one’s surroundings typically is low, implying that even subtle negative cues are likely to be appraised as offending, as exemplified by the concept of subtly offending feedback. Updating the first publication of the SOS concept, the current paper presents its theoretical rationale as well as research conducted so far. Research has covered a variety of phenomena, but the emphasis has been (a) on illegitimate tasks, which now can be considered as an established stressor, and (b) on appreciation, showing its importance in general and as a core element of social support. Furthermore, we discuss implications for further research as well as practical implications of an approach that is organized around threats and boosts to the self, thus complementing approaches that are organized around specific conditions or behaviors. Springer International Publishing 2019-07-01 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC7328775/ /pubmed/32647746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41542-019-00041-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019, corrected publication 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Semmer, Norbert K. Tschan, Franziska Jacobshagen, Nicola Beehr, Terry A. Elfering, Achim Kälin, Wolfgang Meier, Laurenz L. Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title | Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title_full | Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title_fullStr | Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title_full_unstemmed | Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title_short | Stress as Offense to Self: a Promising Approach Comes of Age |
title_sort | stress as offense to self: a promising approach comes of age |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32647746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41542-019-00041-5 |
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