Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lecture 3: Stress & Wellbeing
- Subjective Wellbeing: focuses people's evaluation of their
lives. They can experience when they feel many pleasant
feelings and a few unpleasant, When they are satisfied.
- a combination of enduring positive moods, the absence of
negative moods such as depression or anxiety and the
satisfaction with life.
- POSITIVE: job performance
- NEGATIVE: Absenteeism, turnover
- JOB SATISFACTION: A pleasurable or positive
emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's
job or job experiences.
- RESEARCH EXAMPLE: 109 managers Psychological wellbeing compared to job sat and performance
- RESULTS: relationship between job sat and perf was moderated
by wellbeing. Not significant for those with low wellbeing but
positive for those with high wellbeing.
- WORK ENGAGEMENT: connection with the performance
of work tasks rather than the attitude towards the job
- STRESS: Occurs when an individual percieves that the demands
of an external situations are beyond his or her percieved ability to
cope with them.
- STRESSORS: Physical or Psychological demands
- PHYSICAL: heat, cold, noise, Work demands: Pace, load, hours, time pressure, Shift work.
- PSYCHOLOGICAL: Lack of control, role
stressors, work- life conflict, emotional
labour, bullying/ violence.
- STRAINS: Reaction
or response to
stressors
- DEMAND CONTROL MODEL: Karasek (1979) Looks at Job demands and Job control
- PSYCHOLOGICAL LOW AND HIGH
- LOW STRAIN: Dentist
- ACTIVE JOB: Manager
- CONTROL HIGH AND LOW
- PASSIVE: Janitor
- HIGH STRAIN: Cashier
- HYPOTHESES: Iso-strain - Jobs characterised by high demands, low control and low ocial support are consider the lowest levels of worker wellbeing.
- BUFFER: Social support can buffer the impact of job strain
- CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS:
- BEHAVIOURAL: info processing, performance, CWBs
- PSYCHOLOGICAL: Need for recovery, burnout
- PHYSIOLOGICAL: hyoertension, migraines, coronary heart disease
- RECOVERY:
- MANAGING: Time mgmt, Physical exercise, Relaxation, Support.