Stress and wellbeing
16 important questions on Stress and wellbeing
Can you give a definition of work stress or stress at work?
What are strains and what are stressors
Stressors: e.g. Work pressure, conflicts, abusive supervision
Eustress is stress with a good outcome, can you give examples of eustress, as well as examples of distress (negative stres)?
- stress converted to positive energy
- desirable outcome of stress
- motivational results
- optimal level of arousal
distress:
- negative outcome
- results in emotional and physical illness
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
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What does the right side of the curve represent in the performance-arousal graph?
- High arousal
- Exhaustion
- Low performance
What occurs at the top of the curve in the performance-arousal graph?
- Optimal Performance
- Eustress
- Balanced arousal
How does distress relate to performance and arousal in the graph?
- High arousal
- Decreasing performance
What is eustress in the context of the performance-arousal graph?
- Positive stress
- Enhances performance
There are 2 type of stress personalities, type A and type B. What do these two mean?
Type B: non-stress-prone, relaxed, agreeable, are better able to put stressful events into perspective, use more positive ways to deal with stress.
What is stress sensitization?
- if you were exposed to extreme levels of stress repeatedly, you are more likely to react quicker and more extreme to stressors
- desensitization occurs through learning new behaviors to cope with stress and working through feelings about past stress
Burnout can be divided into two types of symptoms, core and secondary, name the different symptoms
- exhaustion
- emotional impairment
- cognitive impairment
- mental distance
Secondary complaints
- psychosomatic complaints
- psychological distress
- depressive mood
How much percent of Dutch employees in 2018 reported experiencing burnout symptoms and in what sectors can the highest rates of stress be found?
and
in Education and ICT sectors
(most employees are absent from work 6-9 months or longer)
In the Netherlands employers are required by law to prevent and minimize work stress. This falls under the heading psychosocial workload, which are all factors that directly or indirectly cause stress. But what are organizations with more than 50 employers required to do?
What can be done to reduce stress? Explain the transactional theory of stress and coping and explain CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): CBT focusses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems
What can be done to reduce stress?
- laughter
- diet
- smoking reduction
- sleep
- support network
- self-empowerment, coping skills
What types of workplace violence and mistreatment are there?
- incivility (impolite/rude)
- ostracism (exclusion/rejection)
- harassment
- bullying
Stress also causes employee violence and mistreatment. Bystanders intervention are a potentially useful tool for violence mitigation, on which two factors are these interventions based?
- level of involvement (low or high)
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- Never study anything twice again
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- 100% sure, 100% understanding
