TY  - JOUR
TT  - Stress in Work Life
AU  - Kurt, Burak
AU  - Akbaba, Muhsin
AU  - Ötegen, Volkan Recai
PY  - 2017
DA  - November
JF  - The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety
JO  - turjoem
PB  - Engin TUTKUN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-4711
SP  - 13
EP  - 13
VL  - 2
IS  - 1(4)
KW  - Stress in Work Life
N2  - TheInternational Labor Organization (ILO) has defined psychosocial factors as"interactions between job satisfaction, business organization andmanagement, environmental and organizational conditions and workers' expertiseand needs".Job stress is harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when there isa mismatch between the needs of the worker and the skills, resources, or needsof a worker who changes the psychological and / or physical behaviors thatdiverge from the normal functions of the individual.Stress is the second most common health problem after work-relatedmusculoskeletal disorders. Work stress can affect the state of well being andproduction capacity.According to a survey conducted across Turkey, more than half of employees(59%) stated that their stress levels had risen in the last year. The mainreasons for working stress in Turkey are business (61%), customers (44%) andindividual finance (42%). 66% of respondents said that working flexibly reducesstress.Potential sources of work stress are:• Environmental factors (physical, technical, general environment)• Organizational factors (Task, role, structure, participation, leadership, rules)• Individual factors (incompetence, family, death, divorce, lack of money)• Individual differences (work experience, personality, age, gender, socialeconomic status)As a result of them:• Physiological manifestations (Headache, heart, blood pressure)• Psychological symptoms (sleep deprivation, depression, dissatisfaction)• Behavioral symptoms (discomfort, accident, alcohol consumption)• Organizational symptoms (absenteeism, reduced performance) arise.Measures to be taken in the fight against work stress of employees:1. Identifying stress sources correctly2. Reducing and eliminating stress sources3. Providing employees with stress experience4. Giving employees information about stress results5. Helping to be more effective in struggle with stress  Keywords:workpsychology, stress, coping
CR  - Burak Kurt, Muhsin Akbaba, Volkan Recai Ötegen
Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Department of Public Health
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/turjoem/issue//383603
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/410768
ER  -