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Stressing the Stress or the Complexity of the Human Factor: Psychobiological Consequences of Distress
Raquel CostaMiguel ÁNgel Serranosubject
030506 rehabilitationJob strainConceptualizationbusiness.industryProcess (engineering)Context (language use)030210 environmental & occupational health03 medical and health sciencesDistress0302 clinical medicineStress (linguistics)0305 other medical scienceHuman resourcesbusinessPsychologyControl (linguistics)Social psychologydescription
Work stress is a complex process that takes place during the interaction between work demands and workers’ abilities. Karasek’s conceptualization of job stress (job demands-control model) predominates over other models of work stress. Job strain appears if there is an imbalance between demands and control. However, this parsimonious model is quite complex, mainly in the control dimension. Control is defined as the ability to cope with job demands; however, control is an ambiguous term that includes personal and job abilities and decision processes. Therefore, stress (or job strain) is a complex process that involves many different human resources to cope with job demands. In this context, individual differences should be taken into account. These individual differences make people more efficient (or not) and healthier (or not). Thus, there are many pathologies related to stress, with cardiovascular disease (the first cause of death in western societies) being the main stress-related disease. Therefore, the first aim of this chapter is to address the topic of stress in industry, in order to point out several aspects that can contribute to a better understanding of the effects of stress on human factors. Moreover, the second objective is to show how stress is associated with diseases in order to emphasize the need to tackle job stress prevention.
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2017-06-17 |