PSychology Marmot Workplace Stress
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- Created on: 20-04-15 09:10
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- Marmot WORKPLACE STRESS
- Hypothesis
- Civil service higher grade employees would experience higher workload whereas low grade civil servants would experience lower level of control
- Procedure
- 7372 civil servants in London
- Given a questionnaire about workload, job control, amount of social support
- Given a physical examination for signs of cardiovascular disease
- Reassessed 5 years later
- Findings
- No link between high workload and stress related illness
- Higher grades of C.S worker developed fewest cardiovascular problems and lowest grademost
- Conclusion
- Job demand is not a significant factor in stress
- Fewest problems = Higher grade employees had a high sense of job control and good levels of social support
- Evaluation
- Culturally limited (Only London)
- Social desirability (Questionnaire- could lie)
- Doesn't factor in other stressors (eg: divorce) no direct cause and effect
- Has practical applications (Help stop problems before they start)
- 5 years in large gap (don't know what happened in that time)
- Johansson supports, as finishers had very little control over rate of production (more likely to be ill than other workers)
- Hypothesis
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