PSY 805 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Coronary Artery Disease, Shift Work, Informal Sector
25 Oct 2016
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Job stress: what we experience when the demands of our work exceed our abilities. Organizational stress: how the structure and processes of the organization bring about stress; different from job stress, which is about the roles, tasks and demands. Work stress: applies to all manners of work-related contexts including stress of informal work, self-employment, or formal jobs. Model of organizational role stress: involves role conflict (2+ demands. Organizational injustice model: stress occurs when the organization"s interpersonal. Jobs demands-control model: strain occurs when worker experiences high psychological job demand but has little control over the job (called low decision latitude), job strain as harmful consequences that result from job-related stressors. Effort-reward imbalance model: high cost, low gain work efforts are stressful; based on reciprocity transactions or procedures are perceived as unfair. Police/firefighters: periods of boredom broken up by periods of physical danger, report both work overload and work underload; high rates of alcoholism/divorce.
