WORK STRESS: AN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

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JOSÉ MARÍA PEIRÓ SILLA

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Stress has become a relevant well known social phenomenon that has been frequently related to work and labour activities. In fact, surveys about labour conditions have shown, this is a widely extended phenomenon and that there are a great variety of stress sources which produce this experience and use to be associated to negative consequences. In the present work we will analyse, at the first place, the classical exposition of labour stress and then we will remark some important characteristics of an approach that tries to go further, keeping into consideration social and collective aspects as well as the actual labour environment in which this particular type of approach could be used.

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JOSÉ MARÍA PEIRÓ SILLA, University of Valencia, Spain

Correspondence address: Department of Social Psychology. Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 21. 46010 Valencia. Email: Jose.M.Peiro@uv.es. Research line: Human Resources

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