Occupational stress

With the rapid development of economic and the progress of society, people’s living standards gradually improved. At the same time, maybe with the faster and faster rhythm of life and work, the pressure is much heavier than past few years. There are many kinds of pressure, such as political pressure, pressure from work, family, emotional stress, financial stress, interpersonal pressure, and psychological pressure；especially, the occupational stress. It becomes one of the hot issues all over the world. Nowadays, harm of occupational stress has been a serious and social problem of individual health; people pay more attention to the issue of work-related stress. There are many theories which have been proposed to show the main factors and outcomes of occupational stress. This paper will focus on the main causes of occupational stress and some positive and negative effects which are related to the professional stress.

Occupational stress is common issue in modern society. This kind of stress related the work. In general, job stress often happen in some situations which are unequal between the level of personal skills and the requirement of workload. In the other word, the job stress is inability to deal with the stress in the workplace. Some occupations are inherently stressful, such as, teachers, nurse, engineer and IT programmer. Every people, especially, who live in the large city, can more or less has the occupational stress. The work stress not only affects individual work performance, but also affects the personal physical and mental health.
In extensive studies on occupational stress, there are four factors which can be connected with the increase of professional stress. First of all, according to Darshan et al. (2013), heated competition is one of the major factors of workplace stress. In modern society, because of the working stress, the interpersonal competition becomes more and more intensive. In addition, Darshan et al. (2013) claimed that work

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