UID:
almahu_9949701300802882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047418887
Serie:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Inhalt:
While aspiring to escape from the drudgery and alienation which seem to be the fate of manual workers, professionals have long realized to their distress that their professionalism and work commitment by no means reduce the stressfulness of their work. Such an awareness of the impact of work on their physical and emotional well-being has led the professionals to make efforts to maximize their person-environment fit and to enhance their coping and adapation, knowing, sometimes helplessly, that society, bureaucracy, and work organization continue to be a potent source of work stress. This book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among professionals by a multidisciplinary research team of sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and human resources experts. The work lives of seven groups of professionals are profiled and compared in this book: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. Based on a large-scale survey, in-depth interviews, and comparative analyses, this book suggests practical recommendations and policy measures for personal, organizational as well as societal intervention. Work stress is a social problem--as such it requires a societal solution. Meanwhile, individual professionals cope and adapt in the way they know best, which is certainly not a satisfactory response.
Anmerkung:
Preliminary material /
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Chapter One. Introduction: Society, stress and coping: The dialectic of person-environment fit and human adaptation /
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Chapter Two. Engineers in a newly industrialising economy /
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Chapter Three. Work stress and psychological well-being among nurses /
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Chapter Four. Stress coping strategies and psychological well-being among nurses By Boey Kam-Weng, Chan Kwok-Bun And Ko Yiu-Chung /
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Chapter Five. Stress on patrol: Stress And Coping Among Police officers /
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Chapter Six. Organisational health in the police: A 3-r approach /
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Chapter Seven. Stress and coping of teachers: A quantitative and qualitative analysis /
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Chapter Eight. Work stress, work satisfaction and coping among life insurance agents /
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Chapter Nine. Institutional context and stress appraisal among life insurance agents /
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Chapter Ten. Work stress among six professional groups: A comparison /
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Chapter Eleven. Coping resources, coping strategies and work stress among six professional groups: A comparative analysis By Gina Lai, Chan Kwok-Bun And Ko Yiu-Chung /
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Contributors /
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References /
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Subject index /
Weitere Ausg.:
Work stress and coping among professionals ISBN 9004154809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789004154803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Sprache:
Englisch
