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    Illegitimate tasks as a source of work stress
    (2015-3-2)
    Semmer, Norbert K
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    Meier, Laurenz L.
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    Elfering, Achim
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    Beehr, Terry A.
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    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Work Experiences and Well-Being in the First Years of Professional Work in Switzerland: A Ten-Year Follow-Up Study
    (: Springer, 2014)
    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Keller, Anita C.
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    Elfering, Achim
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    Semmer, Norbert K.
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    Psychische Beanspruchung durch illegitime Aufgaben
    (Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2013)
    Semmer, Norbert K.
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    Meier, Laurenz L.
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    Elfering, Achim
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    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Immer schneller, immer mehr: Psychische Belastungen bei Wissens- und Dienstleistungsarbeit
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    The effect of positive events at work on after-work fatigue: They matter most in face of adversity
    (2011)
    Gross, Sven
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    Semmer, Norbert K.
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    Meier, Laurenz L
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    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    There is evidence that daily negative events at work enhance fatigue. In contrast, positive events may trigger processes that increase, but also processes that decrease, energetic resources. Accordingly, results regarding a main effect of positive events on fatigue have been mixed. However, a clearer pattern between positive events and fatigue can be expected under adverse circumstances (i.e., accumulation of negative events, high chronic stressors). Positive events may facilitate coping and accelerate recovery processes and, thus, reduce resource drain due to daily negative events and chronic stressors. Predicting fatigue in a diary study with 76 employees, we investigated interactions between daily positive events and (a) daily negative events and (b) chronic social stressors. Multilevel modeling revealed that negative but not positive events were associated with increased end-of-work fatigue. However, positive events interacted with negative events and with chronic social stressors. As expected, positive events were negatively associated with fatigue only on days with many negative events, but not so on days with few negative events. Analogously, positive events were negatively associated with fatigue only among employees with high, compared with low, chronic social stressors. We conclude that the beneficial short-term effects of positive events on energetic resources are largely confined to adverse circumstances. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
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    First years in job: A three-wave analysis of work experiences
    (2007)
    Elfering, Achim
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    Semmer, Norbert
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    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Bucher, Adrian
    A sample of 423 Swiss job entrants reported major change in general, as well as positive and negative work experiences one, two, and four years after finishing vocational training. Qualitative data analysis showed change in responsibility, increase in decision latitude, acquisition of new status (professional work status, full team member status), increased salary, and change in work rhythm to be characteristic for the transition from apprenticeship into "real work". In terms of costs and benefits participants reported transition-specific combinations of work experiences, with responsibility and social recognition as positive experiences combined with high demands as negative experiences. Reports of increasing demands and task intensity were frequent throughout the first four years of job experience. Cooperation and social exchange always were of major concern, both as positive and negative experiences. The number of positive and negative experiences reported predicted job satisfaction over and above previous job satisfaction, background variables, stressors, and resources. Results point to a rather smooth transition, in which negative experiences are embedded in, and outweighed by, positive ones. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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    Young adults entering the workforce in Switzerland
    (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
    Semmer, Norbert
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    Elfering, Achim
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    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Grebner, Simone
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    Kriesi, Hanspeter
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    Farago, Peter
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    Kohli, Martin
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    Work characteristics and well-being of Swiss apprentices entering the labor market
    (2000)
    Kälin, Wolfgang
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    Semmer, Norbert
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    Elfering, Achim
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    Dauwalder, Jean-Pierre
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    Heunert, Sibylle
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    von Roten, Fabienne Crettaz
    Young people in five occupations were investigated before the end of vocational training and again one year later (N = 675). In general, working conditions were within the range found in adult samples, with some values for stressors, however, being on the higher end. Conditions were especially good for electronic technicians, rather good for bank clerks, but comparatively worse for cooks and salespeople. For nurses, a stressful job was combined with good social conditions. Attitudes are positive towards life in general but rather low towards work. Stress symptoms (irritability) are on the high end of the typical range for adults, Where there are changes over time, they are to the better for many working conditions and for work attitudes, Stress symptoms, however, tend to increase, More than 50 per cent of participants change employers. They seem to profit from leaving which is remarkable because many of them did not have a choice, Overall, stability seems more prominent.