A stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research has indicated.
The study reported in the European Heart Journal focused on more than 10,000 British civil servants. Those under 50 who said their work was stressful were nearly 70% more likely to develop heart disease than the stress-free.
The stressed had less time to exercise and eat well – but they also showed signs of important biochemical changes. [continue reading…]
Men worry more about their work-life balance than their female counterparts.
Lucy Watt, Business Psychologist from Robertson Cooper Limited, will present her and her colleagues research paper – Workplace Stress: Does Gender Matter? – today, Friday 11 January 2008, at the Annual Conference of the Division of Occupational Psychology of the British Psychological Society at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Holiday Inn. [continue reading…]
You live in a majorly stressed out world. You’re never very far from a ringing cell phone or a guilt-inducing laptop. Traffic makes you flip out. And as if stressing out over lines, health, your job, your grades, or global terrorism wasn’t enough, along comes the APS Observer with one more thing in your life to stress out over: Stress. [continue reading…]
Here’s a novel idea for unwinding after a stressful day at the office: Find a happy marriage.
That’s the suggestion from a new UCLA study that tracked levels of cortisol, a key stress hormone, among 30 Los Angeles married couples involved in one of our age’s trickiest juggling acts — raising kids when both parents work full time. [continue reading…]
