Aspects of the work place environment which create a stress response.
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What are the 4 main types of workplace stress?`
Role conflict, environment, workload and control
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Who did the experiment on Role Conflict?
Pomaki Et Al
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What was the aim of Pomaki Et Al's experiment?
To investigate the relationship between stress in the workplace and stress in everyday family life
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What did Pomaki Et Al do in their experiment?
She studied 226 hospital doctors and asked them about the stresses they had at work and how this effected their stress at home visa versa
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What were the findings of Pomaki's experiment?`
Showed that role conflict was directly associated with emotional exhaustion and depression
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What was the conclusion of Pomaki's experiment?
Workplace and home-life stresses cause people stress as it is hard to balance them both
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Who investigated Control?
Marmot Et Al
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What was the aim of Marmot Et Al's experiment?
To investigate the relationship between control in the workplace and the incidence of conorary heart disease.
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What did Marmot do in his experiment?
Used 7372 both male and female british civil servants, participants were sent questionaire and asked to take part in screeing of CHD this was repeated 5 years later
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What did Marmot find from his experiment?
Both men and women in the lowest grades were three times more likely to develop CHD
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What was the conclusion of Marmots experiment?
Having low control over your work causes you more stress than having lots of control
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Give 2 evaluation points of Marmot's experiment-
HE did heart tests so he only knows if it effects the heart nothing else. He only used people aged 35-55 no one younger who would be less likely to develop CHD
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Give 4 evaluation points of Workplace Stress
Fails to control extraneous variables , many of the studies used questionaires so they are effected by social desirability, link is correlational and some have low population validity
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