Exam 7: Psychosocial Hazards

What two personality characteristics are particularly relevant to stress?

What type of moderator can aggravate an individual's response to a stressor?

How can an employer or human resource manager manage mental health illness in the workplace?

If an employer announces a layoff of 25% of employees, job insecurity would be what type of stressor?

What are the four categories of strain reactions?

Talking with friends and coworkers is an example of a secondary stress intervention.

Bridget is hard-driving, competitive, and is often impatient and irritable when dealing with time-sensitive work tasks; she has been categorized as having a type A personality. According to the research, Bridget's personality is a stress moderator.

According to the textbook, what is the main reason why organizations in the Mental Health Commission's case study project wanted to focus on improving mental health in the workplace?

The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -If there are 20 Canadian players on a National Hockey League team (the rest are Americans and Europeans), according to Canadian statistics how many are likely to experience or be dealing with a mental health problem?

What is an example of an individual tertiary stress intervention?

The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -Which of the following is a social moderator that could buffer athletes from experiencing negative effects of stress due to recent losses to other teams?

The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. - Playing time is something that athletes on sports teams monitor very closely and being "benched"-not allowed to play their regular shifts-can be very humiliating. However, if the coach does not bench an underperformer, what type of injustice might the rest of the team experience?

Imagine you are currently the human resource director for a small to medium-sized organization. You are aware that perceived injustice in workplaces is a stressor and you would like to minimize the extent to which your employees are exposed to this type of work stress. Give some examples of how you might maximize employee-perceived distributive, procedural, and interactional fairness. What outcomes would signal that employees are beginning to feel that the workplace is unfair?

Technology-related stressors include all of the following factors EXCEPT

A study completed by Morneau-Shepell suggest that what fraction of Canadian workers are more stressed now than they were five years ago?

If an organization is concerned about work-family conflict, what aspects of work-family conflict should it identify and address to fully understand the issue?

Which of the following is an example of a primary stress intervention?

What is experienced by an employee who feels that his salary is too low given his amount of responsibility and the long hours he works?

The psychosocial model of health used to discuss stress highlights which of the following factors?

Providing a coworker with positive feedback about a task they performed is an example of tangible support.