Health Psychology, 2nd Edition

have higher resting blood pressure and their blood pressure returns more slowly to resting levels following stressful encounters ...

has been found, although the most consistent findings relate to the differential vulner - ability hypothesis. However, Stronks e ...

72 STRESS AND HEALTH What are theories and models? Why do we need them in health (and occupational health) psychology? Theories ...

STRESS AND HEALTH IN CONTEXT 73 The limitations of such frameworks have prompted some researchers to develop more complex models ...

74 STRESS AND HEALTH FIGURE 4.1A high demand job is a job with heavy workload. Source: Copyright otnaydur/Shutterstock.com. Unre ...

executives in a company who are likely to experience stress, it is in fact the case that those lower down an organization suffer ...

on a day-to-day basis, within-person fluctuations in mood and work hours were more important than the stable features of the wor ...

of interaction effects are possible whereby specific job resources (control, support, feedback, role clarity, etc.) may buffer t ...

demands. Rewards stem from the nature of the social contract and include money (adequate salary), esteem (respect and support) a ...

had? These kinds of questions have interested researchers investigating the relationships between stressors in different domains ...

Work–life conflict Relationships between work and other aspects of life have been investigated in terms of role conflict, that i ...

health is found in conditions where both work–family and family–work facilitation is high and work–family conflict is low. We aw ...

(1974: 2) states that employers have a duty ‘to ensure as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at wo ...

Reducing stress by stress management training A common approach to reducing stress in the workplace is to offer employees stress ...

84 STRESS AND HEALTH appraisals of stressful situations, inhibit automatic thoughts and enhance coping skills. Some people exace ...

typically provided via Employee Assistance Programmes available to employees and (frequently) their families. Such services are ...

be less prone to sickness absence and it may also have other organizational benefits in terms of employee relations. Exercise ca ...

STRESS AND HEALTH IN CONTEXT 87 SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES Does being poor make people less healthy? Discuss with reference to psychol ...

Nordin, M., Marmot, M.G., Lunau, T., Ladwig, K.-H., Koskenvuo, M., Knutson, A., Kittel, F., Jockel, K.-H., Goldberg, M., Erbel, ...

3 Coping resources: Social support and individual differences ...