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Quantitative demands
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Including cognitive demands, workload, time pressure, overtime work, constantly being interrupted.
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Emotional demands
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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.
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Conflicts
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Conflicts with co-workers, subordinates, managers and/or clients.
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Managerial responsibility
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When patients reported being in some kind of leadership position and experienced this as stressful.
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Reorganisation
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Stressors due to reorganisation of the workplace or a high turnover of colleagues.
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Deficient leadership
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Stressors related to various lack of leadership, e.g. not experiencing enough support from managers or reporting having an unpredictable manager.
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Job insecurity
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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.
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Irregular working hours
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Work hours reported as exhausting/wearing, such as night work, overtime, irregular working hours or long-distance commuting.
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Noisy work environment
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Stressors associated with a loud or disturbing work environment.
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Discontent
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When explicitly expressing that one is not happy or satisfied with their workplace in general as a specific stressor.
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Traumatic event at work
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For example having a patient committing suicide (applies to those working in health care), lawsuits or being exposed in media.
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