Lecture 3: Stress & Wellbeing

Lecture 3: Stress & Wellbeing

1. 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.

2. POSITIVE: job performance

3. NEGATIVE: Absenteeism, turnover

4. JOB SATISFACTION: A pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experiences.

5. 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.

6. WORK ENGAGEMENT: connection with the performance of work tasks rather than the attitude towards the job

7. 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

8. 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

9. CONSEQUENCES OF STRESS:

   • BEHAVIOURAL: info processing, performance, CWBs
   • PSYCHOLOGICAL: Need for recovery, burnout
   • PHYSIOLOGICAL: hyoertension, migraines, coronary heart disease

10. RECOVERY:

    • MANAGING: Time mgmt, Physical exercise, Relaxation, Support.