PURPOSE In a 2011 survey sponsored by the American Nurses Association (ANA), nurses identified the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork as one of their two top safety and health concerns. DESIGN/METHODS A review of the literature was conducted to investigate the impact that job stress has on the health and safety of nursing professionals and the role that working conditions and jo...

This study uses a spiritual appraisal model of stress and health to investigate the moderating effects of spirituality at work on job stress, wellbeing, and ill-being amongst Australian academics (Gall, Charbonneau, Clarke, Grant, Joseph & Shouldice 2005). Academic staff members employed in Australian universities completed a self-report questionnaire containing quantitative measures of spiritu...

While recent research has studied Information Technology (IT) as a job stressor, others have proposed IT to be a means to reduce the impacts of job stressors by facilitating communication and coordination, by providing information for better decision making, and by encouraging faithful appropriation. This research proposes both the stress inducing and stress relieving roles that IT might play o...

OBJECTIVES A casual relationship between temperament, job stress and depressive symptoms has not been established yet. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between job stress, temperament and depressive symptoms in female nurses at a Japanese general hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS A self-report survey was conducted among 706 nurses. We measured job stress, temperament, an...

background: exposure to job stress causes deleterious effects on physical and mental health of employees and productivity of organizations. objective: to study work-related stressors among employees of prisons of ilam, western iran. methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted from july to october 2013, 177 employees of ilam prisons and security-corrective measures organization were enrolled i...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of occupational status and job stress factors on cardiovascular stress reactivity in Japanese workers. In this baseline assessment between 2001 and 2009 in Osaka, Japan, we examined 928 healthy Japanese employees (330 men, 598 women) from two occupational statuses: managers/professionals and general workers. A brief job stress questionnaire was used t...

BACKGROUND High levels of stress and the challenges of meeting the complex needs of critically ill children and their families can threaten job satisfaction and cause turnover in nurses. OBJECTIVE To explore the influences of nurses' attributes, unit characteristics, and elements of the work environment on the job satisfaction of nurses in pediatric critical care units and to determine stress...

background: nurses are exposed to various stressful situations in their work environment. it is obvious that occupational stress affects physical and psychological health of nurses and consequently the quality of their work. the purpose of the present study was to determine nursing occupational stress and factors influencing that in order to implement interventional programs for decreasing them...

Stress has become a prominent feature of modern work place. Present study was conducted to examine the stress and health relationship as moderated by coping styles. Stress related to life events was measured by using the Life Changes Experiences Survey (Dohrenwend et al., 1978) whereas mental health of managers was measured with the help of General Health Questionnaire (12 items version, by Gol...