The mediating role of interpersonal conflict at work in the relationship between negative affectivity and biomarkers of stress.

AFFECT (Psychology); BIOMARKERS; BIOLOGICAL assay; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; CONFLICT (Psychology); STATISTICAL correlation; CYTOKINES; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKINS; INTERPERSONAL relations; JOB stress; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; SEX distribution; WORK environment; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

The article discusses a study which aims to determine the presence of an association between interpersonal conflict at work (ICW) and higher serum levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1B, IL-12, and IL-17 as well as explore negative affectivity in ICW and strain response. Topics include the Allostatic Load (AL) model, recovery process, and the need to belong theory. Also discussed are the use of Q-Bo test to establish ICW, and the use of structural equation modeling to test hypothesis.