MHR 711 Chapter 7: MHR 711 - Chapter 7 Psychosocial Hazards.docx
23 Mar 2015
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Stressors: objectively verifiable event that exists and occurs outside the individual that has the potential to cause stress, i. e. congested traffic worrying that you"ll be late for work, get yelled at, get fired, dimension of stressors vary by frequencies of occurrence, intensity, duration, predictability (time of onset, specific time of onset = you know exactly when it began, nonspecific = you don"t know when, four categories: acute, chronic, daily, catastrophic, acute: i. e. traffic accident, performance review meeting, conflict with supervisor, chronic: i. e. job insecurity cannot point to a specific event/time that triggered the insecurity, daily: i. e. dealing with a broken piece of office equipment, catastrophic: i. e. 9/11 for those directly involved and long term consequences for those individuals who live with fear of terrorism, distinction between acute and catastrophic relates to intensity of the stressor (direct threat to life, loss of life, or major property damage extremely high intensity vs. conflict with supervisor high intensity)
