Work stressors | Categories | Explanation |
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Quantitative demands | Including cognitive demands, workload, time pressure, overtime work, constantly being interrupted. | |
Emotional demands | Including emotional or psychological demands at work such as having more responsibility than one can handle, not having enough competence for one’s assignments and demanding tasks such as care-giving tasks or being responsible for clients/students. | |
Conflicts | Conflicts with co-workers, subordinates, managers and/or clients. | |
Managerial responsibility | When patients reported being in some kind of leadership position and experienced this as stressful. | |
Reorganisation | Stressors due to reorganisation of the workplace or a high turnover of colleagues. | |
Deficient leadership | Stressors related to various lack of leadership, e.g. not experiencing enough support from managers or reporting having an unpredictable manager. | |
Job insecurity | When experiencing an insecurity related to one’s employment, like working as a contractor or having a temporary employment. This category also included having been dismissed from work. | |
Irregular working hours | Work hours reported as exhausting/wearing, such as night work, overtime, irregular working hours or long-distance commuting. | |
Noisy work environment | Stressors associated with a loud or disturbing work environment. | |
Discontent | When explicitly expressing that one is not happy or satisfied with their workplace in general as a specific stressor. | |
Traumatic event at work | For example having a patient committing suicide (applies to those working in health care), lawsuits or being exposed in media. |