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Stress and Distress among the Unemployed: Hard Times and Vulnerable People (Springer Studies in Work and Industry)

Employing both large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews, the authors document the mental health effects on workers caused by the closure of four General Motor plants. They paint a portrait of how the social context in which these workers lived played a critical role in their experiences of unemployment or of keeping their jobs when others around them lost theirs. More than simply a study of unemployment and mental health, this book is also a story of coping and resilience.

Stress And Its Relationship To Health And Illness

To discuss the relationship between stress and health status, it is first necessary to define the term "stress." This is not a mundane issue, because the term "stress" is popularly used to refer to a wide range of physiological changes, psychological states, and environmental pressures in the health/illness literature. Stress was first described as a biological syndrome by Selye (1936, p. 32): Experiments on rats show that if the organism is severely damaged by acute non-specific nocuous agents such as exposure to cold, surgical injury, production of spinal shock ... a typical syndrome appears, the symptoms of which are independent of the nature of the damaging agent ... and represent rather a response to damage as such.

Stress And Its Relationship To Health And Illness

To discuss the relationship between stress and health status, it is first necessary to define the term "stress." This is not a mundane issue, because the term "stress" is popularly used to refer to a wide range of physiological changes, psychological states, and environmental pressures in the health/illness literature. Stress was first described as a biological syndrome by Selye (1936, p. 32): Experiments on rats show that if the organism is severely damaged by acute non-specific nocuous agents such as exposure to cold, surgical injury, production of spinal shock ... a typical syndrome appears, the symptoms of which are independent of the nature of the damaging agent ... and represent rather a response to damage as such.

Stress and Mental Health: Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the Future (Springer Series on Stress and Coping)

Providing fresh insights into the complex relationship between stress and mental health, internationally recognized contributors identifie emerging conceptual issues, highlight promising avenues for further study, and detail novel methodological techniques for addressing contemporary empirical problems. Specific coverage includes stressful life events, chronic strains, psychosocial resources and mediators, vulnerability to stress, and mental health outcomes-thus providing researchers with a tool to take stock of the past and future of this field.

Stress and Performance Effectiveness: Volume 3

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Stress and Performance Effectiveness: Volume 3

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Stress and Poverty: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Stress in Cells, Individuals, and Society

The word stress is everywhere and highly overused. Everyone is stressed, it seems, all the time. Looking into the meaning of stress in the natural science and the humanities, this book explores cellular stress as cause of and in correlation with what humans experience as stress. When do we psychologically feel stress and when do we show physiological evidence of stress in our brain? Stress is a deviation from what feels normal and healthy. It can be created by social or economic factors and become chronic, which has substantial impacts on the individual and society as a whole. Focusing on poverty as one chronic inducer of stress, this book explores how the lack of pressure-free time, the hardships and unpredictability of everyday life and a general lack of protection lead to destructive toxic stress. This pressure affects cognitive and social functioning, brain development during childhood and may also result in premature aging. How can the sciences inform our understanding of and our response to stress? What can be done about toxic stress both on a personal level and in terms of structures and policies? The book is written for anyone interested in stress, its causes and consequences, and its relationship to poverty.

Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem

Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality - especially during pregnancy. Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem examines the processes through which economic circumstances, environmental issues, and social conditions create situations that expose African American women to stress and chronic strain. Detailing the individual and community assets and strategies used to address these conditions, this volume provides a model methodology for translating research into public health and social action. Based on interactive community partnered research, Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem Facilitates more exact hypotheses about the relationship between risk factors, protective factors and reproductive health; Furnishes a better understanding of chronic disease patterns and suggests more effective interventions to reduce rates of infant mortality; Incorporates the voices of the community and of women themselves through their own words and actions; Sheds light on epidemiologic research and intervention protocols; Examines the social context in which reproductive behaviors are practiced; Provides a holistic framework in which to understand infant mortality; And more. Filling a large gap in the literature on the social context of reproduction this important monograph offers indispensable information for public health researchers, program planners, anthropologists, sociologists, urban planners, medical providers, policy makers, and private funders.

Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work (including burn-out, bullying, and issues relating to work-life balance) have emerged as important social and medical problems in Western countries. However, stress is a contested category, not (as many argue) a well-defined clinical, biological and psychological state that affects people in the same way in different cultures and at different times. Thus, a social constructionist perspective helps to shed light on new approaches to prevention and interventions of work stress. This book will be of great interest for students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social history, history of science, psychology, communication and management, as well as to practitioners (doctors and psychologists), policy makers and employers.

Stress Between Work and Family (Springer Series on Stress and Coping)

Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families (Advances in Family Research Series)

Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books. The issues and theoretical models discussed in this work shaped much of the subsequent research on this topic and are reflected in the papers in this volume. The shift has been away from identifying associations between risks and outcomes to a focus on factors and processes that contribute to diversity in response to risks. Based on the Family Research Consortium's fifth summer institute, this volume focuses on stress and adaptability in families and family members. The papers explore not only how a variety of stresses influence family functioning but also how family process moderates and mediates the contribution of individual and environmental risk and protective factors to personal adjustment. They reveal the complexity of current theoretical models, research strategies and analytic approaches to the study of risk, resiliency and vulnerability along with the central role risk, family process and adaptability play in both normal development and childhood psychopathology.

Stress, Coping, and Resiliency in Children and Families (Advances in Family Research Series)

Concern with stress and coping has a long history in biomedical, psychological and sociological research. The inadequacy of simplistic models linking stressful life events and adverse physical and psychological outcomes was pointed out in the early 1980s in a series of seminal papers and books. The issues and theoretical models discussed in this work shaped much of the subsequent research on this topic and are reflected in the papers in this volume. The shift has been away from identifying associations between risks and outcomes to a focus on factors and processes that contribute to diversity in response to risks. Based on the Family Research Consortium's fifth summer institute, this volume focuses on stress and adaptability in families and family members. The papers explore not only how a variety of stresses influence family functioning but also how family process moderates and mediates the contribution of individual and environmental risk and protective factors to personal adjustment. They reveal the complexity of current theoretical models, research strategies and analytic approaches to the study of risk, resiliency and vulnerability along with the central role risk, family process and adaptability play in both normal development and childhood psychopathology.

Stress, Health, and the Social Environment: A Sociobiologic Approach to Medicine (Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine)

The mastery of a variety of biomedical They avoided the self-destruction and dis­ techniques has led our society to the solu­ ease that can so readily follow the escalation tion of the problems in environmental con­ of social disorder in an isolated colony. By trol imposed by space flight. By an unparal­ following a "code of civility" that may be as leled social cooperative effort, man has much a part of man's biologic inheritance as launched himself successfully on the path of his speech, they established cultures in interplanetary exploration and space travel. which power was exercised with sufficient By a like synthesis of knowledge available to respect to establish a consensus. They fol­ him, Stone Age man kept a foothold on tiny lowed revered cultural canons, using an Pacific atolls for the better part of a thousand accumulation of rational empiric data from years, despite obliterating hurricanes and social experience to modify and control the inherited biogrammar. This we often fail to limited resources. By combining empiric do. There is growing evidence that it is phys­ navigational skills, such as the sighting of stars with intuitive feeling for ocean swells iologically possible for the left hemisphere of and other subtle cues, tiny populations were the brain, which deals with logic and lan­ maintained in communication over vast dis­ guage, to be cut off from the right hemi­ tances.

Stress in the Spotlight: Managing and Coping with Stress in the Workplace

Based upon interviews with individuals in high pressure positions, from business leaders to a bomb disposal expert, this book provides practical insight about how to identify, tackle and overcome any kind of stress.

Stress in Turbulent Times

Stress isundoubtedly one of the major work-related illness and is even more likely in times of economic uncertainty and downturn. Theauthors assess the psychological challenges created by instability and uncertainty and provide a survival toolkit that shows the reader how to combat stress in their own lives.

Stress, Informationen und Entscheidungen im Management: Wirkungszusammenhänge und Einflussfaktoren (Unternehmensführung & Controlling)

Dieses Buch umfasst sowohl eine theoretische als auch empirische Analyse der Zusammenhänge von Stress, Informationen und Entscheidungen im Management sowie die darauf einflussübenden Kontextfaktoren insbesondere in Zeiten zunehmender Digitalisierung. Hierzu entwickelt Maria Wolf einen wissenschaftlich fundierten Bezugsrahmen, auf dessen Basis Zusammenhänge identifiziert und analysiert werden. Zudem prüft die Autorin Hypothesen in Anlehnung an mögliche Kontextfaktoren und leitet aus den Ergebnissen spezifische Handlungsempfehlungen für die Unternehmenspraxis ab. Insbesondere kommt dem Stressor der Informationsüberflutung mit einem signifikanten Wirkungseffekt auf die strategische Entscheidungsqualität im Management eine besondere Bedeutung zu.

Stress Less, Sell More: 220 Ways to Prioritize Your Well-Being, Prevent Burnout, and Hit Your Sales Target

Improve your sales performance and avoid burnout with Mental Health, resilience, and stress-management strategies. In Stress Less, Sell More: 220 Strategies to Prevent Sales Burnout and Maximize Mental Performance, celebrated sales leader and founder of the Sales Health Alliance, Jeff Riseley, delivers a practical and impactful handbook that makes it easy for sales teams to perform better and build mental health conversations consistently into their busy selling days. In the book, you’ll explore ways to navigate the pressures and stressors faced by every sales professional. Its pages can be read day-by-day or all at once, and a companion website supplements the material found in the book with free articles, , and videos. You’ll also discover: How to build an individual Mental Health and stress-management toolkit to improve mental resilience and sales performance. Ways to overcome stressors in sales like lost deals, missed targets and buyers ghosting. Helpful team-based changes that dramatically improve salesperson mental health—like quota relief during vacationsAn essential guide to improving salesperson wellbeing and sales performance, Stress Less, Sell More will prove to be an invaluable resource for sales leaders, team leaders, salespeople, and sales teams looking for ways to make daily work life less stressful and more productive.

Stress Less, Sell More: 220 Ways to Prioritize Your Well-Being, Prevent Burnout, and Hit Your Sales Target

Improve your sales performance and avoid burnout with Mental Health, resilience, and stress-management strategies. In Stress Less, Sell More: 220 Strategies to Prevent Sales Burnout and Maximize Mental Performance, celebrated sales leader and founder of the Sales Health Alliance, Jeff Riseley, delivers a practical and impactful handbook that makes it easy for sales teams to perform better and build mental health conversations consistently into their busy selling days. In the book, you’ll explore ways to navigate the pressures and stressors faced by every sales professional. Its pages can be read day-by-day or all at once, and a companion website supplements the material found in the book with free articles, , and videos. You’ll also discover: How to build an individual Mental Health and stress-management toolkit to improve mental resilience and sales performance. Ways to overcome stressors in sales like lost deals, missed targets and buyers ghosting. Helpful team-based changes that dramatically improve salesperson mental health—like quota relief during vacationsAn essential guide to improving salesperson wellbeing and sales performance, Stress Less, Sell More will prove to be an invaluable resource for sales leaders, team leaders, salespeople, and sales teams looking for ways to make daily work life less stressful and more productive.

Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out: Umgang mit Leistungsdruck — Belastungen im Beruf meistern

Stress gilt als eine der größten Gesundheitsgefahren – häufig ist die Ursache der Dauerstress, den Leistungs- und Zeitdruck am Arbeitsplatz erzeugen. Dabei kann Stress positiv wirken, wenn die Bedingungen stimmen. Die Autoren zeigen, wie sich ein Weg zwischen negativem Stress und positiven Herausforderungen finden lässt. Dazu liefern sie Grundlagenwissen zur Entstehung und zu den Folgen von Stress sowie praxisorientierte Methoden zur Stressbewältigung. Neu in der 6. Auflage: Material zu Mobbing und Burn-out sowie Hinweise zu rechtlichen Problemen.

Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out am Arbeitsplatz

Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation hält Stress für eine der größten Gesundheitsgefahren unserer Zeit. Hauptstressquelle ist für viele der Leistungsdruck und die Überforderung am Arbeitsplatz. Und wer sich vom Stress auffressen lässt, „brennt aus" (Burn-out). Stress kann aber auch Spaß machen: z. B. wenn man sich mit ganzer Kraft erfolgreich für eine Sache einsetzt. In dem Buch erfahren Betroffene, wie sie die eigene Stresssituation und Verarbeitungsmuster analysieren können, wie sie Stress bewältigen, mit Mobbing umgehen und Burn-out vermeiden können.

Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out am Arbeitsplatz

Macht Arbeit krank? Die WHO hält Stress für eine der größten Gesundheitsgefahren des 21. Jahrhunderts. Hauptursache ist häufig die Arbeit. Konkurrenz begünstigt Mobbing. Druck erzeugt Dauerstress. Wer sich davon auffressen lässt, "brennt aus". Betroffene können nicht mehr (Burn-out-Syndrom). Aber Stress muss nicht krank machen. Was Sie wissen müssen, wenn Sie Stress bewältigen, mit Mobbing umgehen und Burn-out vermeiden wollen.

Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out am Arbeitsplatz

Macht uns die Arbeit krank? Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation hat Stress zu einer der größten Gesundheitsgefahren des 21. Jahrhunderts erklärt. Hauptstressquelle ist bei vielen Menschen die Arbeit. - Unter großem Leistungs- und Zeitdruck entstehen Konkurrenzsituationen, die Mobbing begünstigen, - Veränderungsdruck und Überforderung wiederum erzeugen Dauerstress. - Wer sich vom Stress auffressen lässt, "brennt aus", er ist erschöpft, hat das Gefühl, er kann nicht mehr. Er leidet unter dem Burn-out-Syndrom. Doch Stress muss nicht immer krank machen. Der Mensch will gefordert werden, etwas leisten, seine Fähigkeiten unter Beweis stellen. Solcher Stress kann auch Spaß machen: Man ist zufrieden, wenn der Tag mit anregender Arbeit ausgefüllt war, wenn man sich mit ganzer Kraft für eine Sache eingesetzt hat. Das ist das attraktive Gesicht von Stress. Es gilt, Ihren eigenen Weg zwischen Veränderungsstress und Freude an der Arbeit zu finden. - Was müssen Sie wissen, wenn Sie von Stress, Mobbing oder Burn-out betroffen sind? Die wichtigsten Informationen zu drei Belastungen im Arbeitsleben - Selbsteinschätzungen, Übungen und Fragebögen analysieren Ihre individuelle Stresssituation sowie Ihre Stressverarbeitungsmuster - Praxisorientierte Methoden zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie Stress bewältigen, mit Mobbing umgehen und Burn-out vermeiden können Schwierige Situationen im Beruf meistern - Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out bewältigen!

Stress, Mobbing und Burn-out am Arbeitsplatz: Umgang mit Leistungsdruck - Belastungen im Beruf meistern - Mit Fragebögen, Checklisten, Übungen

Stress gilt als eine der größten Gesundheitsgefahren – häufig ist die Ursache der Dauerstress, den Leistungs- und Zeitdruck am Arbeitsplatz erzeugen. Dabei kann Stress positiv wirken, wenn die Bedingungen stimmen. Die Autoren zeigen, wie sich ein Weg zwischen negativem Stress und positiven Herausforderungen finden lässt. Dazu liefern sie Grundlagenwissen zur Entstehung und zu den Folgen von Stress sowie praxisorientierte Methoden zur Stressbewältigung. Neu in der 6. Auflage: Material zu Mobbing und Burn-out sowie Hinweise zu rechtlichen Problemen.

Stress Processes across the Life Course (ISSN #Volume 13)

Stress researchers have become increasing aware of the ways in which structural and psychosocial variations in the life course shape exposure and vulnerability to social stress. This volume of Advances in Life Course Research explores, theoretically and empirically, stress processes both within and across specific life stages. Chapters within this volume incorporate several areas of research, including:• How physical and mental health trajectories are shaped by life course variations in stressors and resources• Stress associated with social role transitions and the significance of different role trajectories for stress exposure and outcomes • Life course variations in the quality and content of institutional contexts (such as school, work and family) and their significance for stress processes• Differences in types, levels, and effects of different stress-moderating resources within and across life course stages• Ways in which race, gender, and social class influence or condition stress processes over the life course• The relevance of “linked lives" within families and across generations for stress exposure and vulnerability• Historical variations in stress-related conditions and cohort differences in stress experiences• Methodological and theoretical advances in studying stress processes across the life course

Stress Testing the USA: Public Policy and Reaction to Disaster Events

In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill. The author uses stress-testing to identify weaknesses within the "system," and examine the response to disaster.