Stress is an adaptive response to challenging or threatening situations that can negatively impact well-being if stress levels are too high. The stress experience involves three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. Stress is caused by stressors found in the work environment, life roles, interpersonal relationships, and organizational activities and conditions. Individual characteristics determine how stressors are perceived and experienced. Prolonged or high stress can lead to physiological, behavioral, and psychological symptoms like high blood pressure, lower job performance, and job burnout. Employers have interventions to manage work-related stress, such as removing stressors, altering stress perceptions, wellness programs, and social support.
Effective stress management helps you break the hold stress has on your life, so you can be happier, healthier, and more productive. The ultimate goal is a balanced life, with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun—and the resilience to hold up under pressure and meet challenges head on.
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Effective stress management helps you break the hold stress has on your life, so you can be happier, healthier, and more productive. The ultimate goal is a balanced life, with time for work, relationships, relaxation, and fun—and the resilience to hold up under pressure and meet challenges head on.
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Comparing stress levels in female doctors of selected public and private sect...Tapasya123
The health care industries have experienced profound changes, during the
past several decades. Doctors in health care profession and a major
component of health care delivery system is significantly affected by
changes in health care industry. Thus, they undergo tremendous stress in
their occupational life as well as their personal life. The present study was
aimed to focus to measure level of stress in female doctors of public and
private sector hospitals. For the present study, total sample was taken as
300 female doctors from public and private sector hospitals. Convenient
sampling technique was used to collect data through standardised selfmade
questionnaire. The result indicates that female doctors were working
in private sector hospitals are more stressed than female doctors were
working in public sector hospitals.
Stress management involves utilizing strategies and techniques to cope with and reduce the impact of stress on mental and physical well-being. By employing practices such as mindfulness, exercise, relaxation techniques, and time management, individuals can effectively navigate stressful situations, improve resilience, and enhance overall quality of life.
An Analysis of Work Stress among College Teachers in Selffinancing College, P...IOSR Journals
Stress at the workplace is the major cause of most of the health problems. The study focus on an
Analysis of Work Stress among College Teachers in Self-financing College, Perambalur District, Tamilnadu.
The data collected from 50 respondents with the objectives of To find opinion about teaching and handling
students, to find out the stress creators, to analysis of sharing stress problems, to find out techniques applied by
the College teachers for managing stress
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STRESS and WELL-BEING at WORKChapter Scan
Stress can be beneficial or harmful. While some harmful stress is inevitable, the techniques and approaches available for dealing with that stress are increasing. Some individuals and some circumstances are more at risk for high stress than are others. This chapter also reviews the benefits of controlling stress in the workplace.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
1.
Define stress, distress, strain, and eustress.
2.
Compare four different approaches to stress.
3.
Explain the psychophysiology of the stress response.
4.
Identify work and nonwork causes of stress.
5.
Describe the benefits of eustress and the costs of distress.
6.
Discuss four moderators of the stress-strain relationship.
7.
Distinguish the primary, secondary, and tertiary stages of preventive stress management.
8.
Discuss organizational and individual methods of preventive stress management.
Key terms
Chapter 7 introduces the following key terms:
stress
stressor
distress
strain
homeostasis
ego-ideal
self-image
eustress
participation problem
performance decrement
compensation award
Type A behavior pattern
personality hardiness
transformational coping
self-reliance
counterdependence
overdependence
preventive stress management
primary prevention
secondary prevention
tertiary prevention
THE CHAPTER SUMMARIZED I.
LOOKING AHEAD: Risk Factors and Coronary Heart Disease
II.
WHAT IS STRESS?
Stress is the unconscious preparation to fight or flee that a person experiences when faced with any demand. Stress does not necessarily have to be destructive. A stressor is the person or the event that triggers the stress response. Distress refers to the adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequences that may arise as a result of stressful events.
A.
Four Approaches to Stress
1.
The Homeostatic/Medical Approach
Walter Cannon was the physiologist who discovered the stress response, and he initially named it "the emergency response,” or "the militaristic response." A steady state balance, or equilibrium, is homeostasis, which is upset when a person faces an external demand. The body has natural processes to keep it in homeostasis.
2.
The Cognitive Appraisal Approach
Richard Lazarus made contributions related to the psychology of stress. What is stressful for one person may not be stressful for another. Stress is a result of the person-environment interaction. The person's cognitive appraisal of a situation as stressful is a key part of the stress process.
3.
The Person(Environment Fit Approach
Robert Kahn determined that there is a person-environment fit when skills and abilities match role expectations. Stress occurs when expectations are conflicting or confusing, or when a person's resources are unable to me ...
Promoting occupational stress management for a small office (final)Katrina Brown
The prevalence of stress throughout human civilization is a developing concern. Many are admittedly over-stressed in the workplace and studies have shown that stressful work environments lead to employee health problems and negative attitudes.Through my examination, I learned how to design a customized stress management program for employees by using an assessment of environmental stressors, health behavior limitations, and business culture.
1. CHAPTER 7 SUMMARY
Stress is an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening
to the person’s well-being. Distress represents high stress levels that have negative
consequences, whereas eustress represents the moderately low stress levels needed to
activate people. The stress experience, called the general adaptation syndrome, involves
moving through three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. The stress model shows
that stress is caused by stressors. However, the effect of these stressors depends on
individual characteristics. Stress affects a person’s physiological and psychological well-
being, and is associated with several work-related behaviors.
Stressors are the causes of stress and include any environmental conditions that place
a physical or emotional demand on the person. Stressors are found in the physical work
environment, the employee’s various life roles, interpersonal relations, and organizational
activities and conditions. Conflicts between work and nonwork obligations represent a
frequent source of employee stress.
Two people exposed to the same stressor may experience different stress levels
because they perceive the situation differently, they have different threshold stress levels,
or they use different coping strategies. Workaholics and employees with Type A behavior
patterns tend to experience more stress than do other employees.
High levels or prolonged stress can cause physiological symptoms, such as high
blood pressure, ulcers, sexual dysfunction, headaches, and coronary heart disease.
Behavioral symptoms of stress include lower job performance, poorer decisions, more
workplace accidents, higher absenteeism, and more workplace aggression.
Psychologically, stress reduces job satisfaction and increases moodiness, depression, and
2. job burnout. Job burnout refers to the process of emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and
reduced efficacy resulting from prolonged exposure to stress. It is mainly due to
interpersonal and role-related stressors and is most common in helping occupations.
Many interventions are available to manage work-related stress. Some directly
remove unnecessary stressors or remove employees from the stressful environment.
Others help employees alter their interpretation of the environment so that it is not
viewed as a serious stressor. Wellness programs encourage employees to build better
physical defenses against stress experiences. Social support provides emotional,
informational, and material resource support to buffer the stress experience.