title: Antiferromagnetic character of workplace stress.
abstract: We study the nature of workplace stress from the aspect of human-human interactions. We investigated the distribution of Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale scores, a measure of the degree of stress, in workplaces. We found that the degree of stress people experience when around other highly stressed people tends to be low, and vice versa. A simulation based on a model describing microlevel human-human interaction reproduced this observed phenomena and revealed that the energy state of a face-to-face communication network correlates with workplace stress macroscopically.
authors.affiliation: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun-ichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Tomoaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akitomi
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ara
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yano
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D059346:Magnets; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D017132:Workplace