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  • Essay / The Effects of Stress in the Workplace - 832

    Today, the world is changing at a rapid pace and people are experiencing a lot of pressure and demands at their workplace. In other words, a person who suffers from pressures or stress has their normal psychological and physiological well-being also affected. Stress is the process of the body's response to a task [1]. Stress generally defines a negative condition or a positive condition that can have an influence on a person's mental and physical well-being [1]. Stress is defined as various forms of pressure from the environment and then as pressure within the person; also the interaction between the situation and the individual. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the individual's assets are inadequate to meet the demands and pressures of the situation. Stress can hinder the achievement of goals, both for individuals and for organizations [3]. The degree of stress experienced depends on the functioning of two protective physiological mechanisms. The first is the alarm response, that is, when we are faced with a threat to our safety, our first response is physiological arousal. Second, adaptation, that is, it allows us to stop reacting when we learn that environmental stimuli no longer pose a threat to our safety. There are different signs of stress, including how you feel, how you think, how you behave, and how your body adapts and responds. There are many types of stress: good stress like eustress, bad stress like distress, acute distress, and chronic distress [2]. Stress occurs at work and is called workplace stress or occupational stress. This is a measure of the pressure an individual feels about their job. Various external factors can lead to stress at work. These include: work schedule, work pace, work...... middle of paper ......d as the “band-aid” approach [8]. Tertiary prevention concerns the process of treatment, rehabilitation and recovery of people who have suffered or are suffering from serious health problems due to stress. This study uncovers a series of roots of workplace stress and a three-tiered intervention strategy for managing workplace stress. work. The study would identify the different intervention strategies, namely primary, secondary and tertiary, which are used to manage stress in the IT sector and investigate: do they occur in combination or in isolation, leading to which reality? In the study, the mentioned intervention strategies are compared to the stress parameters defined later in the report. It will look at a person's stress level and the prevention strategy they need. Furthermore, in the event that the preventions occur separately or in combination, it is determined.