BACKGROUND¡GWork plays an important role in everyone¡¦s health and happiness. However, facing the rapidly changing medical environment, physicians feel even more stress than ever. PURPOSE¡GThe purpose of this study was to find the current stressors among physicians who worked in hospitals in southern Taiwan, and to evaluate the correlations among demographics, type A behavior pattern(TABP) and the perception and approach-avoidance intention (AAI) of the stressors. METHOD: Structured questionnaires were mailed to physicians who worked in hospitals in Ping tong and Kaohsiung. Data were coded and analyzed with factor analyses, £q2 test, Pearson¡¦s correlation, partial correlation, Student t test, ANOVA and multiple regression when appropriate. RESULTS: The effective response rate was 7.9% and there was no true difference between the samples and population in demographic characteristics. Six factors were extracted from stressors by factor analyses with the cumulative percentage of total variance explained around 64.7%. The overall Cronbach¡¦s £\ was .917. The extent of stress perception and the AAI of the factors of stressors, namely ¡§patient management (PM)¡¨, ¡¨interpersonal relationship (IR)¡¨, ¡¨work load (WL)¡¨, ¡¨medical environment (ME)¡¨, ¡¨organizational structure (OS) and ¡§research and teaching (RT)¡¨, were used as dependent variables during comparisons between different demographic variables and TABP. The mean TABP score was 4.47, mean perceived stress was 3.13 and the mean AAI of the stressors was 3.5. The most stressful factor of stressors was PM and the least was IR. The AAI of the factor of the stressors revealed that RT was most likely to use approach as the coping strategy whereas the OS was the least. The correlation between the extent of the stress perception and AAI of the stressors varied. Significant correlation was found only in moderate stress zone. TABP significantly correlated to stress perception with Pearson¡¦s r = .227 ( P < .05 ). There was significant difference in overall stress perception on TABP and the position of the physicians. Physicians with TABP perceived more stress than Type B did. Residents were more likely to report their job as stressful than attending physicians did. However, the correlation between TABP and the AAI of the stressors (overall and all 6 factors) were not significant. The attribute of the hospital was the only factor that has the moderator effect on AAI of the stressors. Physicians who worked in public hospitals use approach as the coping strategy to the stressors more likely than physicians who worked in private hospitals did. The correlation between the stress perception and AAI to the factors of the stressors, and the moderator effect of physicians demographics and TABP on stress perception and AAI to the factors of the stressors will be discussed in detail in the text.

本研究之目的在了解兩人合作時，團隊成員與夥伴之A/B類行為、能力差異知覺對於團隊工作表現、合作滿意及情緒的影響。本研究採實驗室實驗法，以131名大學女生為實驗對象，兩人一組，所需完成之作業為一電腦判斷任務。 本研究的結果乃根據2（個體之行為組型：A/B）X 2（夥伴之行為組型：A/B）X 2（能力差異知覺：佳/差）三因子變異數分析而來。在團隊工作表現方面，「個體之A/B類行為」的主要效果顯示，A類行為者的團隊工作表現，與B類行為者並沒有差異。「個體之A/B類行為」與「能力差異知覺」的交互作用顯示能力差異知覺對B類行為者的影響較A類行為者大；在被告知其能力較差時，B類行為者的團隊工作表現較A類行為者佳，而在被告知其能力較佳時，其團隊工作表現則較A類行為者差。另外，「個體之A/B類行為」、「夥伴之A/B類行為」及「能力差異知覺」的三因子交互作用達顯著，A類行為者在「知覺能力較差」且「夥伴為A類行為者」時，團隊工作表現最差。 在合作滿意方面，「個體之A/B類行為」的主要效果顯示，兩者的合作滿意度沒有差異；而「夥伴之A/B行為」的主要效果達顯著，表示不論本身為A類或B類行為者，與A類行為者合作的滿意度較低於與B類行為者合作。 在情緒部分，「個體之A/B類行為」的主要效果顯示A類行為者的情緒較B類行為者為負向，較容易焦慮；此外，「個體之A/B類行為」、「夥伴之A/B類行為」與「能力差異知覺」的三因子交互作用達顯著，當A類行為者被告知能力較差時，A類行為者與A類夥伴合作時，其情緒最為負向。 本研究最後針對所有的研究結果作整合性的討論，並依實驗所得的結果，提出可能的貢獻、限制、對未來研究的建議及工商實務上的應用。