Stress is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, involving multiple processes placed on different epistemological levels investigated by different disciplines (e.g., physics, biology, medicine, psychology). In turn, stress is influenced by several factors of various nature (e.g., biochemical, genetic, psychosocial) with a transitory (e.g., exam, job interview), chronic (e.g., war, permanent disability), and even dispositional time course (e.g., anxiety disorder). We are used to think about stress as a negative condition leading to even worse somatic and psychological reactions, but is this always true?
Workplace stress is a highly prevalent phenomenon associated with substantial individual, organizational, and societal costs. Over the last decades, robust theoretical frameworks have been provided to characterize the stress response both physiologically and psychologically. These resulted in consolidated models of job stress, as well as in normative frameworks aiding organizations to identify, assess, and manage the psychosocial hazards in the work force.
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Three-day experience sampling methods protocol with 139 employees. Analysis of the psychometric properties of measures of stressors and strain.
Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) include a set of tools for the repeated and systematic sampling of psychological states, experiences, and activities in real time, in free-living conditions.
As described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, one of the main pioneers of this methodology, ESM aim at “obtaining self-report for a representative sample of moments in people's life” to study the frequency, intensity, and patterning of self-reported experiences (thoughts, psychological states etc.), and daily activities (social interactions, changes in locations etc.
Don't lose sleep over it. Easier said than done. Sleep and - more generally - recovery are fundamental processes for our health, well-being, and productivity. However, the hectic pace of modern society, the increasingly long working hours, and the thoughts and worries that follow us outside work are stealing our precious “leisure time”. What risks are implied by lack of recovery? How does stress - particularly work stress - steal our sleep?
Analysis of the impact of changes in physical workplace features (lighting, aestetichs, office layout) on multiple indicators of employee health and well-being (perceived comfort, mood, sleep, HRV, cortisol).