Stress, Health & Sustainable Working Life (EBM203A05)
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG)
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Index of lectures
Lecture 1:
- Part 1: Stress research
- Part 2: Stress theories & lookout
Lecture 2:
- Part 1: Job characteristics models
- Part 2: Balance theories
Lecture 3:
- Part 1: Introduction and theoretical background
- Part 2: Internal recovery
- Part 3: External recovery & boundaries
- Part 4: Telework
- Part 5: External recovery
Lecture 4:
- Part 1: Meaning introduction
- Part 2: What makes work meaningful?
- Part 3: Why should we care?
- Part 4: Where do we find meaningful work?
Lecture 5:
- Part 1: Individual interventions, intro & theory
- Part 2: Intervention on lunch breaks
- Part 3: Holiday intervention
Lecture 6: Leadership and organizational interventions
- Part 1: Positive and negative effects of leadership behavior
- Part 2: What are sources and consequences of stress at work?
- Part 3: What type of organizational and leader level interventions are aimed to
reduce stress?
- Mini-lecture: precarious work conditions
,Index of articles
Week 1:
- Richardson (2017): Managing Employee Stress and Wellness in the New Millennium
- Day & Nielsen (2017): Chapter 16: 295-314: What does our organization do to help
our well-being? Creating healthy workplaces and workers
- Ganster & Perrewé (2011): Chapter 3: 37-53: Theories of Occupational Stress
Week 2:
- Meurs & Perrewé (2011): Cognitive activation theory of stress: an integrative
theoretical approach to work stress
- Bakker & Demerouti (2017): Job demands-resources Theory: taking stock and
looking forward
- Tang, Leka & MacLennan (2012): The psychosocial work environment and mental
health of teachers: a comparative study between the United Kingdom and Hong
Kong
Week 3:
- Donnelly & Proctor-Thomson (2015): Disrupted work: home-based teleworking
(hbTW) in the aftermath of a natural disaster
- Hahn, Binnenies, Sonnentag & Mojza (2011): Learning how recover from job stress:
effects of a recovery training program on recovery-related self-efficacy, and
well-being
- Schonfeld & Chang (2017): Chapter 9: 273-297: Work-family balance
Week 4:
- Schonfeld & Chang (2017): Chapter 7: 215-254: Occupational Health Research on
specific occupations
- Lavy & Bocker (2018): A path to teacher happiness? A sense of meaning affects
teacher-student relationships, which affect job satisfaction
- Nikolova & Cnossen (2020): What makes work meaningful and why economists
should care about it
Week 5:
- Sianoja, Bloom, Korpela & Kinnumen (2018): enhancing daily well-being at work
through lunchtime park walks and relaxation exercises: recovery experiences as
mediators
- Tetrick & Winslow (2015): Workplace stress management interventions and health
promotions
- Health and Safety Executive, HSE (2011): Tackling work-related stress using the
Management Standards approach - a step-by-step workbook
Week 6:
- Semmer (2006): Job stress interventions and organization of work
- Harms, Credé, Tynan, Leon & Jeung (2017): Leadership and stress: a meta-analytic
review
- Dimoff & Kelloway (2018): With a little help from my boss: the impact of workplace
mental health training on behaviors and employee resource utilization
,Lectures
Lecture 1
Part 1: Stress research
Trends in working life
- Work intensification: people can be connected to work 24/7
- Rising prevalence of burnout: disability benefits due to psychological problems
rose from 11% to .40%
- Digitization
- Self-management: pressure to have a healthy lifestyle (social media)
- Alienating and competitive nature of capitalism: platform economies,
self-employment, temporary contracts, decreasing unionization
Changing world: increasing importance of occupational health
- Globalization; long & abnormal work hours
- Demographic change: dual-career families, aging workforce
- Knowledge and work: social & cognitive skills, fading boundaries in ICT
- Deregulation of work: job insecurity, precarious work
Occupational health: interdisciplinary partnerships of psychological and occupational health
science professionals seeking to improve the quality of working life, and enhance the safety,
health, and well-being of workers in all occupations
Jobs that are often considered as ‘bad work’ -> stress:
- Manual labour
- Production work
- Assembly line jobs
Jobs that are often considered as ‘good work’ -> no stress:
- Silicon Valley jobs (software engineers, project managers)
- Highly educated and highly paid
Stress: a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding
circumstances
Stress response: psychological, physiological, and behavioral effects of stress
(performance decrease, depression, emotional problems etc)
, Workload/time pressure: f.e. the feeling that there is too much to do with too little time
Cognitive demands: f.e. mentally overwhelmed with all the things you have to do
Social demands, role conflict: f.e. lack of support, group and personal conflicts
Stress is a subjective experience that emerges from both the interactions with the person
and the environment:
- It is never a fault only of the individual that experiences stress, but it is the interaction
- Most types of stress are negatively
- Some types of stress, like time pressure, can have positive effects
Transactional model of stress
Stress is: an interaction of..
- features of the environment or events (stressors)
- an individual’s response (psychological, physiological, and behavioral) to
environmental demands, threats, and challenges (strain)
A particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the
personal as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her
well-being
Stress research: history
From physiological/behavioristic perspectives:
- Stressor: all the nonspecifically induced changes within a biologic system in
response to an aggressive outside agent
- Stress results from disturbance of homeostasis (i.e., body’s attempt to maintain
stable internal environment)
- Fight-or-flight
- Allostatic Load Model:
- Stability through change
- Allostatic state: reset of setpoints due exposure to chronic demands
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