What are the causes of work-related stress?
There will be a wide range of difference in individual reactions to pressure from psychosocial risk factors in the workplace. Perceptions of psychosocial risk factors may vary between individuals. What one individual finds as motivating, may adversely affect the health of another. The individual’s ability to cope may also vary throughout their lifetime due to a number of influences. Some of these influences include their coping skills, previous experiences, training and personal difficulties (e.g. divorce and death of spouse). Although there are many psychosocial risk factors that can lead to the experience of work-related stress, there are six psychosocial risk factors that have been widely researched and are known to be associated with work-related stress: • Autonomy/control: The amount of authority the employee has over the way they do their job; • Job demands: the amount of workload the employee has to complete, this includes timelines for completing work; • Support: the level of s
