出版社：Fundación Científica y Tecnológica de la Asociación Chilena
摘要：The traditional approach of psychology to reactions to a stress situation
has been focused on the pathological results (Siegel andSchrimshaw,
2000; Peiró, 2008). On the other hand, from positive psychology
emphasis is put on emotions, attitudes and actions that lead to
wellbeing and to getting positive work places (Simmons y Nelson,
2007). However, both perspectives are not excluding, since it is has
been shown that positive emotions may coexist with negative ones
during stressing and adverse circumstances. This approach has used in
the transactional models of stress. In this line, this paper has as its main
objective to investigate the process of stress assessment for exploring
the clusters of relationships existing between the assessment of
potential stressors as a threat and as a challenge.
The sample is made up of 603 professionals of Social Service Centers
of the Valentian Community, Spain; an 82% are females with a mean
age of 37.52 years. Cluster analyses were conducted ( 2 phases).
The findings show that there are three different patterns of stress
assessment as a threat and as a challenge. The first pattern (cluster 1)
is characterized by medium levels of stress assessment as a threat and
as a challenge, a second pattern (cluster 2) is characterized by low
levels of stress assessment as a threat and as a challenge and lastly, a
third pattern (cluster 3) which is characterized by high levels of stress
assessment as a threat and low levels of stress assessment as a
challenge. However, in the three cases, personal responsibility is
assessed as a challenge in the three patterns. Findings, contributions
and limitations of this study are discussed.
