Occupational Stress: Preventing Suffering, Enhancing Wellbeing

James Campbell Quick and Demetria F. Henderson
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James Campbell Quick: Department of Management, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19377, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Demetria F. Henderson: Department of Management, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19467, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

IJERPH, 2016, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-11

Abstract: Occupational stress is a known health risk for a range of psychological, behavioral, and medical disorders and diseases. Organizations and individuals can mitigate these disorders through preventive stress management and enhanced wellbeing. This article addresses, first, the known health risk evidence related to occupational stress; second, the use of preventive stress management in organizations as the framework for intervention; and third, the emerging domain of enhancing wellbeing, which strengthens the individual. Premature death and disability along with chronic suffering from occupational stress are not inevitable, despite being known outcome risks.

Keywords: occupational stress; occupational health; prevention; preventive stress management; stress; wellbeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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