Job Stress

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"Stress Defined
The definition of stress, as advanced by Selye (1975, 401), indicates that it constitutes an individual's response to either internal or external demands. The ways in which individuals adapt to stress are divided into three stages, which Selye refers to as the General Adaptation Syndrome. The first stage, alarm, entails the individual experiencing a state of bio-physiological excitement in response to the stressor; while the second stage, adaptation or resistance, involves adjusting to or resisting the given stressor. The final stage, exhaustion, entails the individual's literally succumbing to the stressor when either adaptation was unsuccessful or resistance has broken down. The term stress is sometimes interchanged with burn-out. The term burn-out refers to the worker being exhausted as a result of too.."

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