stress, as an inevitable and indispensible reality of modern time, has a multitude of positive and negative effects on the physical and psychological health of man and survival and development of organizations. therefore, the precise and timely identification of stressors and a readiness to prevent and cope with them is a great task of men and organizations at the twenty- first century. with th...

Recent efforts to update cumulative risk assessment procedures to incorporate nonchemical stressors ranging from physical to psychosocial reflect increased interest in consideration of the totality of variables affecting human health and the growing desire to develop community-based risk assessment methods. A key roadblock is the uncertainty as to how nonchemical stressors behave in relationshi...

this study was to investigate the most important stressors and causes of job dissatisfaction in employees if an industrial setting. 230 full-time workers and employees were selelcted through random sampling. a questionnaire that included five categories of stressors (permanent and transient factors related to the type of job and the work environme nt, accident producing factors, relationship pr...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine if Jordanian nurses' job stressors are different in various practice areas in hospitals, particularly in stressful or non-stressful clinical areas of work. BACKGROUND Nursing is a stressful profession. Nurses' job stressors have been studied in Jordan, but none compared job stressors in different clinical areas. There is a need to identify nurses' job stressors ...

Global stressors, including climate change, are a major threat to ecosystems, but they cannot be halted by local actions. Ecosystem management is thus attempting to compensate for the impacts of global stressors by reducing local stressors, such as overfishing. This approach assumes that stressors interact additively or synergistically, whereby the combined effect of two stressors is at least t...

BACKGROUND University students are prone to stressors due to the transitional nature of university life. High levels of stress are believed to affect students' health as well as their academic performance. AIMS The aims of this study were to identify stressors and reactions to stressors among university students, and to examine the correlations between student stressors and study variables. ...