Interpersonal, Job, And Individual Factors Related To Helping Processes At Work

Nurses and support staff (N = 465; mostly women) participated in a survey study examining the relationships among helping, help seeking, quality of work relationships. and job and individual factors. The results were consistent with a model that linked relationship quality and helping behavior and linked 1 person's help seeking and the other's helping. The results were also consistent with a model that linked relationship quality and an individual's judgments about the costs of seeking help. Finally, there was support For relationships between help seeking and job demands and task interdependence, suggesting indirect relationships with helping.