Work is a
significant source of stress for many people.
Stress is produced
by:
conflicts on the
job,
dissatisfaction
with ones supervisor (relational disharmony) or with the job
itself,
insufficient
financial compensation,
fear of losing
ones job,
fear of changing
a job for greater advancement,
feeling stifled
in a quest for power,
not feeling
appreciated or acknowledged.
The degree of
stress will vary depending on the personality of the individual.
Stress increases as
a function of how we think about events.
Some folks tend to
catastrophise events, making mountains out of molehills, or
exaggerating the consequences.
They tend to react
to small things with larger than warranted feelings, exaggerating
the events to match their feelings, rather than adjusting their
feelings to the event.
People with low stress
reactions tend to make molehills out of the mountains.
(The writer is a
former Haryana-cadre police office)
