Problem Of Occupational Stress Research Articles

Port terminal safety: A conceptual paper on factors that affects occupational stress risk assessment in container terminal

A part of the supply chain that is very important to Malaysia is the port sector. A high-risk work environment is leading to a rise in occupational stress among port terminal workers. It is necessary for an organisation to correctly diagnose the aspects of the working lifestyle conditions that are perceived as risks by workers and to investigate the consequences of these risks in order for the organisation to be successful in the prevention of occupational stress problems. The aim of this conceptual paper is to investigate the factors that influence the safety practitioner's perception of safety and health risk assessment at port terminal. Data on safety and health that were collected in the past were analysed. Misunderstanding over the definition of a hazard and how to interpret a risk assessment matrix were both factors. This paper will scrutinize those factors and accomplish suggestions for how research should be done in Malaysia in the future.

Personal indicators of occupational stress of employees working remotely in a pandemic quarantine

This article highlights the problem of occupational stress of workers in the mass transition to remote work caused by the difficult conditions of our time in a pandemic COVID-19. Based on the results of theoretical analysis of scientific literature, the classification of the main models of stress is given. The content, features, factors, consequences of occupational stress of workers working remotely in general in a pandemic in particular are highlight. Personal indicators of occupational stress of employees are revealed. The role of personal qualities of employees in the emergence of occupational stress as a buffer that mediates the impact of stressors, enhancing their action, or inhibiting it, negatively affecting the mental health, psychological safety of employees and the quality of their professional activities are shown. The results of an empirical study show that the influence of stressors, which is significantly enhanced in the forced transition to remote work, causing violations in the communicative, emotional, volitional and need-motivational spheres of personality of employees in general and depending on gender and age and professional features of employees in particular. The expediency of taking into account the personal characteristics of employees to prepare them for the prevention and overcoming of occupational stress, developing the ability of employees to conscious and active stress management and counteracting stressors is stated.

JUDICIAL PROFESSION AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW APPROACH

This review investigation highlights the occupational stress problem among jurisdiction professionals. Further, this research makes an effort to study the issues generated in jurisdiction professionals' work-life balance due to occupational stress.Family responsibilities & gathering avoidance,personal discomfort,health issues,and behavioural issues were identified.Implications of this research and future research areas were also discussed.

Building Organisational Sustainability during the COVID-19 Pandemic with an Inspiring Work Environment

This article aims to analyse significant differences in four constructs: occupational stress, job satisfaction, work engagement, and work productivity among employees before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the paper is to develop a multidimensional model with these four constructs and analyse the differences in the strength of their effects on the model across two intersectional times: before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was implemented on a sample of 885 employees in Slovenian organisations. During COVID-19, Slovenia had one of the strictest lockdowns. Based on the research, we can confirm significant differences in the four analysed constructs among employees before COVID-19 and during COVID-19. Based on the results, we can confirm that occupational stress had a more negative effect on job satisfaction and work engagement during COVID-19 than before prior to it. Our research and conclusions highlight the measures with which organisations can reduce the problem of occupational stress and with which organisations can increase job satisfaction, work engagement and work productivity among employees during COVID-19. Based on this, organisations may be able to build a more supportive work environment during, and after, COVID-19.

Strategies for preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers: past evidence, current problems

SUMMARYThe problem of occupational stress in healthcare workers is hardly new, but effective interventions in this area are lacking despite being sorely needed – especially in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The results of a Cochrane review suggest that cognitive–behavioural therapy and mental and physical relaxation reduce stress more than no intervention but not more than alternative interventions, and that changing work schedules may lead to a reduction of stress. Other organisational interventions showed no effect on stress levels. However, the evidence is of low quality owing to risk of bias and lack of precision. This commentary critically appraises the review and attempts to put its findings into the current real-world context.

Stress management interventions for intensive and critical care nurses: A systematic review

The level of occupational stress of nurses working in intensive and critical care units is high. Although many studies have assessed the effectiveness of stress management interventions among intensive and critical care nurses, the methodological quality of these studies remains unclear. The purpose of this review was to summarize and appraise the methodological quality of primary studies on interventions for management of occupational stress among intensive and critical care nurses. This review was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify primary studies that assessed the effectiveness of interventions in managing occupational stress among intensive and critical care nurses using multiple databases from January 2009 to June 2019. Twelve studies published between 2011 and 2019 were eligible for inclusion. These included studies were classified as being of good or fair quality. The consensus across the included studies was that, compared with control condition, cognitive-behavioural skills training and mindfulness-based intervention were more effective in reducing occupational stress among intensive and critical care unit nurses. Further research should focus on methodologically strong studies by blinding the outcome assessors, using Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) design with an active control group, using standardized assessment tools, and reporting enough details about the stress management intervention-related adverse events. This review demonstrates the need for high methodological quality studies to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of stress management interventions before it can be recommended for use in clinical practice to reduce stress in intensive and critical care unit nurses. In addition, attention should be given to developing research protocols that place more emphasis on interventions aimed at the organization level to address the growing problem of occupational stress among intensive and critical care nurses.

Факторы стресса в профессиональной деятельности сотрудников дошкольной образовательной организации

The paper discusses the problem of stress in the activity of personnel of the preschool educational institution. It analyses the concept of stress and its causes, examines the aspects of stress in profes-sional activity for further selection of methods of its prevention and correction. A specific feature of the development of the state of occupational stress is the combination of such adverse factors as work-load and psychological and organizational fac-tors. In the process of studying the topic, the au-thors came to a conclusion that in the first place psychological factors are directly related to the spe-cifics of the organization of work: the degree of freedom of decision making, the level of independ-ent influence on their working situation, the possi-bility to choose the ways and timing of performing a task and control over it. Organizational factors and the specifics of the emerging interpersonal relations during the performance of official duties are among the most significant factors that can cause stress in the professional environment. The problem of occu-pational stress, including occupational stress in personnel of preschool educational institutions, is gaining increasing scientific and practical relevance as the contents and conditions of work are inten-sively changing and the requirements to the compe-tence level, dynamism, and stress resistance of teachers and educators are rising.

Open Questions of Life Satisfaction and Burnout in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation

Abstract Anesthesiologists and resuscitators are at high risk of developing burnout, which can lead to various unfavorable consequences, such as suicide and/or medical errors. The aim of the study The dependence between happiness (satisfaction with life) and burnout in staff of anesthesiology and intensive care departments. Multicenter, anonymous, blind observational study.Materials and methods Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Flourishing Scale (FS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the study also included a series of general questions (gender, age, specialization, subjective definition of “happiness”). The study included 361 participants, including 311 specialists from the departments of anesthesiology and intensive care, and a control group of 50 non-medical workers.Results According to the MBI, high burnout scores were registered for all three subscales: 15% of anesthetists, 17.5% of resuscitators, 9.9% of nursing staff, 0% in the control group. The high figures of some of the three subscales of burnout: 82% of anesthesiologists, 66.25% of resuscitators, 59.4% of nurses and nursing assistants, 14% in the control group. The life satisfaction level was significantly lower in all groups of health care staff in the study, compared to the control group. Only a little more than half of the medical workers (56.59%) never thought about suicide, which means that almost half of the staff of the anesthesiology and resuscitation departments thought to some extent about suicide.Conclusion There is a growing awareness of the problem of occupational stress and burnout in anesthesiology and resuscitation. The timely identification of the first symptoms of burnout, and the provision of anesthesiology-resuscitation staff with psychological tools/psychological support to deal with occupational stress and burnout are required today.

The problem of occupational stress as one of the factors of the deterioration of the psycho-emotional state of medical workers

This scientific article on the topic “The problem of occupational stress as one of the factors of the deterioration of the psycho-emotional state of medical workers” aimed at studying the problem of the influence of occupational stress on the psycho-emotional state, working capacity and performance of medical workers. The following types of occupational stress were identified in the process of studying: work stress, occupational stress and organizational stress as well as the causes that give rise to above mentioned stresses and stress types. In addition, we looked at the following phases of development of occupational stress: the phase of tension, the phase of resistance and the phase of exhaustion, which manifest themselves in the following signs: 1. The phase of tension. Acute experiences, dissatisfaction with themselves and anxiety prevail. 2. The phase of resistance. There is a decrease in emotional response level; attempts to reduce the list of functional responsibilities. The doctor becomes less emotional within the family and while communicating with friends. 3. The phase of exhaustion. Lack of emotions, harshness, rudeness, lack of sympathy, touchiness, detachment, psychosomatic and vegetative disorders. Finally, conclusions about the causality and symptomatology of the deterioration of the psychoemotional state of medical workers were drawn, questions about recommendations that contribute to the prevention of the stress state associated with professional activities and issues about the recommendations and prevention of stressful conditions associated with professional activities were examined.

Occupational stress, burnout and personality in anesthesiologists.

There is a growing awareness of the problem of occupational stress and burnout among anesthesiologists. Occupational stress was found to be related to burnout, a process that is supposed to be moderated by personality. This article will discuss the topic of stress and burnout in relationship to anesthesiologists' personality based on recent literature. Studies among anesthesiologists are in concordance with the broader body of literature on this topic. Personality consistently influences stress appraisal and coping and consequently the development of burnout. Neuroticism, negative affectivity and cooperativeness all contribute to burnout. Strategies to alleviate stress and hence the development of burnout should not only be directed at adapting occupational or organizational factors but also at equipping anesthesiologists with psychological tools to deal with occupational stress. Furthermore, personality traits that predispose for development of burnout could be taken into consideration in resident selection procedures.

基层民警的职业压力及干预技术研究——以商水县为例

警察是公务员队伍中的特殊职业，随着一系列社会问题的突出，譬如：社会矛盾化激增、社会治安混乱、社会老龄化加剧等，这些问题迫切需要社会基层民警的力量，基层民警面对日益繁重的工作任务，心理健康问题也日益突出，职业压力日渐增大，不利于个人的身心健康发展，同时也严重影响了组织和社会的稳定和有效持续的前进。基于此，本文在总结以往国内外研究文献的基础上，以商水县的基层民警为例，采用文献法、访谈法进行调查，着重研究地方基层民警面临的职业压力问题、职业压力的产生来源并分析产生职业压力的内外部因素，以及如何做好其职业压力的干预机制，对于基层民警的职业压力应对和心理健康建设具有重要意义，有利于构建和谐健康的基层民警队伍，以达到构建和谐社会、实现国家社会安全的目的。 The police are the special occupation in the civil service. With a range of social problems out-standing, such as: the rapid increase of social contradictions, the confusion of social security and the intensification of social aging, these problems urgently need the power of grassroots police. Grassroots police face increasingly heavy work tasks, and their mental health problems are also increasingly prominent; increasing professional pressure is not conducive to the development of physical and mental health of individuals. At the same time, it has seriously affected the stability and sustained progress of the organization and society. On the basis of summarizing the research literature at home and abroad, this paper takes the grassroots police of Shangshui County as an example, adopts literature method and interview method to conduct an investigation, focusing on occupational stress problems faced by local grassroots police, the source of occupational stress and how to do the intervention mechanism to release their occupational stress. It has an important meaning for grassroots police to deal with occupational stress and build mental health. It is conducive to building a harmonious and healthy grassroots police team, to achieve the purpose of building a harmonious society and realize national social security.

Holistic approach to human resources and organizational acceleration

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose holistic approach to human resources in the situation of organizational acceleration. Authors are postulating that the holistic approach to HR helps in maintaining sustainable individual resources of employees in the situation of continuous organizational changes and time pressure that further can prevent from the individual resources exhaustion.Design/methodology/approach– This conceptual paper builds on the problem of occupational stress that is connected with organizational acceleration. Authors define stress as the individually perceived inability to match expectations caused by the deficiency of individual resources. They conceptualize the individual resources of employees basing on the concepts of human capital and the individual energy at work and propose a framework of individual resources of employees that enables holistic view of an individual in an organization.Findings– In the situation of organizational acceleration HRM function plays important role in sustaining individual resources of employees in order to minimize threat of occupational stress and further burnout. HR practices should apply multidimensionality of individual resources and threat it holistically aiming at sustaining all four potentials – spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical.Research limitations/implications– Authors indicate that managers need to understand how to deal with the acceleration in order to overcome the negative consequences for individuals. There is still need for identifying HR practices that are the key success factors in the situation of organizational acceleration.Originality/value– Authors take up the current problem of organizational acceleration from the individual perspective. They propose a concept of individual resources of employees and connected to it holistic approach to HR in the times of great time pressure, work overload, occupational stress and burnout threat.

Occupational Stress its an Impacts and Strategies-A Study

Stress at work impacts on stress in the rest of life. The problem of occupational stress has been extensively studied mainly due to the negative effects it has on the organization and employees. Some organizations have programs designed to help physical and mental health workers to prevent problems due to stress and to help “make do” with work-related stress. Stress management is an important part of maintaining good physical and emotional health and healthy relationships with others. The occupational stress problem in work place is still an open question, waiting to be solved. Stress can manifest itself in both a positive way and a negative way. Stress is said to be positive when the situation offers an opportunity for one to gain something. Eustress is the term used to describe positive stress. Eustress is often viewed as motivator since, in its absence, the individual lacks that “edge” necessary for peak performance. It is negative when stress is associate with heart-disease, alcoholism, drug abuse, marital breakdowns, absenteeism, child abuse and a host of other social, physical, organizational and emotional problems. Constraints and demands can lead to potential stress. When they are couple with uncertainty of the outcome and importance of the outcome, potential stress becomes actual stress. Stress is high when there is uncertainty of outcome and the outcome is significant.

Workers occupational stress problem in selected industry

Occupational stress becomes an important agenda for managers and management scholars nowadays and it will remain in the future. Occupational stress is receiving increasing attention in the academic literature and has become a salient issue for the organisations. Occupational stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses. Job life is one of the important parts of our daily lives which cause a great deal of stress. This study is an initiative to explore how does stress stressors influences on work life of workers in contemporary jute mills in Bangladesh. Study reveals that working conditions, environmental conditions, role ambiguity, organisational structure, home–work–interface, etc. are the greatest source of stress and workers perceived that working environment and home work interface have perceived as top most stressors of jute mills in Bangladesh. It is statistically significant that there is no perceived difference in stress level of two stressors, i.e., environmental conditions and home–work–interface of jute mills in Bangladesh. After assessment of occupational stress, a module of stress management technique is given for stress reduction.

Occupational Stress Management

: The problem of occupational stress has been extensively studied mainly due to the negative effects it has on the organization and employees. Some organizations have programs designed to help physical and mental health workers to prevent problems due to stress and to help make do with work-related stress. Stress management is an important part of maintaining good physical and emotional health and healthy relationships with others. This article presents some strategies to prevent and reduce stress both at the organizational level as well as individually. With rare exceptions, Romanian stress Management programs have not known a great success, the reasons behind this being related to mentality. The occupational stress problem in Romania is still an open question, waiting to be solved. Key words: occupational stress, stress management

Risk assessment of occupational stress: Extensions of the Clarke and Cooper approach

For an organization to prevent occupational stress problems, it is necessary to correctly diagnose the characteristics of the work and employment conditions that are perceived as risks by employees and to investigate the consequences of these risks. Clarke and Cooper propose a methodology to assess which organizational factors pose the highest levels of risk to the well-being of employees. A level of risk is calculated based on the exposure level of a hazard and on the level of negative consequences associated with this exposure. The methodology has proven to be useful to prioritize and target specific areas for interventions. The present study introduced significant developments to this methodology by incorporating a coping dimension into the formula in order to better reflect the theoretical stress model. Tested on a sample of employees from a hospital centre (N = 1229), the introduction of coping strategies in the computation of risk level increases the strength of the relationship between risk exposure and outcomes, illustrating that the improved formula constitutes a more precise method to assess risk.

Business depression is not a cause of mental health problem: From a case study

We report a case in which we found that the conventional Japanese business model did not make occupational stress problem in the sense of vitality of company's employee from the viewpoint of “healthy company” and “healthy people”. We also suggest that positive workplace atmosphere had influenced in preventing mental health problems. The “unhealthy company” was reproduced to “healthy company” by “healthy people”.

B202 企業におけるメンタルヘルス支援システム指針作成で考慮すべき要因(2) : 企業におけるストレス問題での既成概念(産業精神衛生2,一般演題:口演,地方の時代の産業保健,第79回日本産業衛生学会)

B202 企業におけるメンタルヘルス支援システム指針作成で考慮すべき要因(2) : 企業におけるストレス問題での既成概念(産業精神衛生2,一般演題:口演,地方の時代の産業保健,第79回日本産業衛生学会)

Psychological Research, Practice, and Production: The Occupational Stress Problem

The accumulation of research findings now suggest a significant work stress problem, with implications for worker health, motivation and productivity, that warrants a concerted applied research effort at a local level and a strategy and policy response at a national level. Psychologists need to rethink prevailing paradigms that often separate their research and practice. We argue that a conducive production model that emphasizes action and knowledge, and reciprocal learning between academia, practitioners, and organizations may be the way forward for psychologists to respond effectively to the current work stress problems and other emergent organizational issues. Failure to do so may result in exacerbation of problems related to the psychological and social context of work, a slowed response to increased demands, and an ever decreasing practical utility of the profession.

The Farm Partners Program

ABSTRACT Growing economic demands, time limitations and uncertainties in farm management are associated with significant chronic stress and related problems in the life of farmers and their families. With funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, we developed a program, the Farm Partners (FP) Program, to increase the awareness and use of various community resources by the farm family in addressing the problem of occupational stress. The program reached out to distressed farmers following referral from agencies, health professionals, and particularly, FP volunteers selected from within the farm community to serve as case finders. These case finders were trained to recognize individuals and families who were dealing poorly with emotional stress. FP social workers visited these farmers at the farm to introduce the program. At subsequent meetings FP staff performed further assessment, discussion, and referrals to community agencies. Project staff also worked to educate community agencies about the needs of the farm community and at times, to establish appropriate support groups. We report on the experience with 395 clients, over 1,000 personal interviews, and over 700 referrals to nearly 100 rural resources. The most frequent referral was for financial advice (17.9%), the next most frequent (10.6%) for health professionals and for support groups (10%), and for assistance with emotional problems (9.3%). Customer satisfaction survey data suggest the program was highly rated by clients. Referral data show that farmers have begun to make significant numbers of first referrals themselves.