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D Kafry

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PubMed1978

Conspicuous in its absence: the lack of positive conditions as a source of stress.

Sress research has concentrated on the presence of negative conditions as a source of stress and largely has ignored stress reactions that result from a lack of positive conditions. In an attempt to demonstrate the seriousness of this omission of stress theory, for samples of students (N = 84) and professionals (N = 205) the presence of negative and absence of positive life and work features were each related to the experiences of life and work tedium and satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Two hypotheses were proposed: that the presence of negative and lack of positive life and work features are (1) both significantly related to tedium and satisfaction/dissatisfaction and (2) are independent of each other. The hypotheses were confirmed for both samples except in the case of work satisfaction/dissatisfaction, which was related only to the lack of positive features. These results highlight the need in stress research to consider lack of positive conditions as a source of stress.

Boredom↗
PubMed1978

Occupational tedium in the social services.

Occupational tedium among social service workers was found to depend more on a worker's interpersonal relations with colleagues and clients than on intrinsic work conditions, such as the variety of job assignments. This suggests that social workers may be particularly sensitive to people as sources of both emotional stress and support.

Attitude↗
PubMed1977

Capacity sharing and refractoriness in successive reactions.

Subjects performed two rapidly successive tasks. They first pressed a key to stop a digital counter at one of three stopping times. The key-press was followed after a variable interval by the presentation of one of three lights, which required a choice response. 20 students and 20 flight cadets participated in the main experiment. Both responses showed impairment in the dual-task condition. The delay of the choice response was affected by the stopping time and by the interval between the key-press and the second stimulus. Complete refractoriness for a period of 200 msec. was observed only for the shortest stopping-time. In the other conditions, the delay of the second response decreased gradot support single-channel theory and are better explained by a capacity-sharing model on the assumption that preparation for a choice-response requires effort.

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