Job stress and occupational health

This chapter focuses on job stress in relation to workers’ physical and psycho logical health. We begin with an outline of job stress as a social problem, fol lowed by a discussion of the main perspectives on (job) stress, resulting in a process model of job stress that will be used as a frame of reference in the remainder of the chapter. In the next section, several leading models on job stress and health are presented and discussed. The role...