STRESS AND HEALTH IN CONTEXT 87SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES
- Does being poor make people less healthy? Discuss with reference to psychological
research. - Evaluate current theoretical approaches to work stress. How useful have they been
for guiding interventions to improve the work environment? - ‘Work stress is unpleasant for employees but it has no real implications beyond the
workplace’. Discuss. - Imagine you have been asked by a company management team to advise on how
they should reduce stress among their employees. What evidence-based advice
would you offer?
FURTHER READING
Books
Brough, P., O’Driscoll, M., Kalliath, T., Cooper, C.L. and Poelmans, S. (2009). Workplace
Psychological Health: Current Research and Practice.Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
HSE (2014). The Management Standards. Retrieved 12 March 2014 from http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/
standards
Journal articles
Bakker, A.B., and Demerouti, E. (2007). The job demands–resources model: State of the art.
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 22, 309–328.
Bosma, H., Peter, R., Siegrist, J. and Marmot, M. (1998). Two alternative job stress models
and the risk of coronary heart disease. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 68–74.
Heikkila, K., Fransson, E.I., Nyberg, S.T., Zins, M., Westerlund, H., Westerholm, P.,
Virtanen, M., Vahtera, J., Suominen, S., Steptoe, A., Salo, P., Pentti, J., Oksanen, T.,
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive behaviour
therapy - Compensation
- Counselling
- Employee assistance
programmes - Job redesign
- Mindfulness
- Recovery
- Relative poverty
- Segmentation
- Social causation
hypothesis - Social drift hypothesis
- Social inequality
- Socio-economic
status- Spillover
- Stress management
training - Work–family conflict
- Work–family and
family–work
facilitation - Workplace
counselling
KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS