Stress

According to answer.com Stress was first studied in 1950 and not completely mentioned where they work on it. Most of us knowing that stress is very usual common in our life now. In ezinearticle “stress statistic by Joseph Amagda talked About 70% of workers are unhappy in their current employment due to work related stress, and I think there is more stress not just in work area may be at home, school, even in church.

Stress can affect negative thing ,yah decease things (stroke, heart attack) even directly in to dead(suicide). We can’t avoid stress but we can manage our stress   because this world is going more hard, difficult,

1990’s  large surveys by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co, Princeton Survey Research Associates, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co., Yale University and The Families and Work Institute.

  • 40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
  • 25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives;
  • Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago;
  • 29% of workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work;
  • 26 percent of workers said they were “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work”;
  • Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems.

The 2000 annual “Attitudes In The American Workplace VI” Gallup Poll sponsored by the Marlin Company found that:

  • 80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help;
  • 14% of respondents had felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn’t;
  • 25% have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress, 10% are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent;
  • 9% are aware of an assault or violent act in their workplace and 18% had experienced some sort of threat or verbal intimidation in the past year.

To read the 2001 “Attitudes in the American Workplace VII” report and take a quick “Workplace Stress” quiz created by the Marlin Company and The American Institute of Stress

A subsequent 2000 Integra Survey similarly reported that:

  • 65% of workers said that workplace stress had caused difficulties and more than 10 percent described these as having major effects;
  • 10% said they work in an atmosphere where physical violence has occurred because of job stress and in this group, 42% report that yelling and other verbal abuse is common;
  • 29% had yelled at co-workers because of workplace stress, 14% said they work where machinery or equipment has been damaged because of workplace rage and 2% admitted that they had actually personally struck someone;
  • 19% or almost one in five respondents had quit a previous position because of job stress and nearly one in four have been driven to tears because of workplace stress;
  • 62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out;
  • 12% had called in sick because of job stress;
  • Over half said they often spend 12-hour days on work related duties and an equal number frequently skip lunch because of the stress of job demands.

These findings are supported by other studies that put their significance in perspective.

And how to prevent this stress:

The best solution is must start up  from our self ( we need to make peace with our self – and for that we need God to handle this thing)

Second solution is from company, company must provide psychological unit and good environment,salary,and respect their worker.

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