On Monday morning you arrive at the office and you already have a lot of problems to solve, isn’t this the day your boss is in a bad mood?And take him with you.
You start to get more nervous and anxious not to be able to do things or you think you already have enough to nest even more. You’re blocking. You see he’s beating you and going into a crisis. In the end, not knowing how, you can do things. However, arrives the next day and a new setback appears?What stress!
- Stress at work is a set of emotional.
- Cognitive.
- Behavioral and physiological responses to certain adverse or harmful aspects of content.
- Organization or work environment.
- Cognitive reactions refer to all the thoughts we have about it.
- To our internal dialogue.
- Changes in our body’s activation.
- Such as an increase in heart rate.
Stress seems to be a process of adapting to the demands we face in the workplace and initially helps us overcome them. The problem is when it interferes with our performance, we will have high levels of emotion and anxiety. In addition, we will feel that the situation overcomes us and that we cannot face it.
W or not stress occurs depends on the influence of a number of factors, including situations that depend on the company in which you work and the work environment, but there are also personal characteristics that can act as a vulnerability factor in this regard. this will help us work to prevent the work stress that is hurting us.
With regard to the situations that occur in the company, there are a number of organizational stressors that will influence the appearance of stress at work, we are talking about schedules, shifts, physical conditions of the environment, wages, occupational risks, ambiguity of the role, hierarchies, etc. , we have to look at all this.
Stress at work will be encouraged under a number of conditions, for example, if work requires maintaining a fast pace for more than half of the working day, or if the level of attention to be paid to the task remains high for more than half of the working day. half the working day. The same applies if tasks are too repetitive for more than half the day.
If our work is a change, it can also facilitate the emergence of stress at work, as the sectors most associated with this phenomenon are: health, veterinary and social services, transport and communications, public administration and education.
A survey conducted by the European Agency for Occupational Safety and Health (EU-OSHA) during 2012 and 2013 identified the following reasons as causing increased stress at work:
Knowing the environmental characteristics that cause stress at work is a good thing, but if we’re just another employee, it’s hard to do anything to change that, unless you work in the human resources department, isn’t it?notice what personal factors may pose a vulnerability in this variable, so that we can remedy it.
For example, if we are very perfectionist and ambitious, we are more likely to feel stress at work; it will be the same if we get too involved in our profession, making great efforts at work. features shouldn’t hurt us.
Also, if we are unable to relax and stay in constant tension, it is easier for stress to manifest at work, it will also happen if we rely on others to make decisions, that is, if we do not rely on our ability to make. The tendency to perceive the situations around us as threatening has the same effect.
But other characteristics also play a role. If we tend to be introverts, so we do not use our social support, working conditions will have a greater impact on us, if we are rigid, we are more likely to conflict, this will promote an environment prone to labor relations. Stress. Finally, having bad habits and a bad diet also play a role.
If we see that we have any of these characteristics, no problem, what matters is that we become aware of it in order to work on it, in this way we can make our professional life easier. It will prevent stress from appearing at work and all its negative consequences.
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