title: [Significance of psychological stress, absence of stress and resources for health promotion at the workplace].
abstract: Stress is defined as a lasting, averse situation, the avoidance of which appears to be subjectively important and where the individual is not sure of having enough ability to control it. Eustress, contrary to this, is characterized by the individual's confidence of being able to master given demands successfully. Therefore eustress can not equated with stress. One may assume that the repeated experience of mastering given demands constitutes a resource in coping with stressors. Empirical findings have shown psychic stressors to be systematically linked with individual discomfort preceding clinical symptoms. Therefore alterations to psychic stressors may be a mean of prophylaxis. Data from surveys on blue-collar workers moreover have suggested that two working conditions themselves may provide resources for coping with stressors: decision latitude and social support. Hence enlarging decision latitude and enhancing social support may be possibilities for prevention, especially in such cases, where stressors cannot (yet) be directly changed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychologie der Freien Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mohr
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000523:psychology*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Die Bedeutung von psychischem Stress, Eustress und Ressourcen für die Gesundheitsförderung am Arbeitsplatz.