Stress - Causes of Stress

Stress - What are the causes of stress?

1.1 Work

• Pressures of repetitive and responsible jobs are compared.
• Johansson found that people whose jobs involved responsibilty for meeting targets and lack of social contact were more stressed.
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Study: Johansson 1978 - Measurement of stress response.

Aims-

• To measure the psychological and physiological stress response in two categories of employees.

Methodology -

• Quasi experiment.
• Data collected through physiological measure of urine and self-report methods. I
• Independent measures design, no manipulation of IV.
• Each participant gave a daily urine sample…