title: Occupational Stress: Preventing Suffering, Enhancing Wellbeing.
abstract: Occupational stress is a known health risk for a range of psychological, behavioral, and medical disorders and diseases. Organizations and individuals can mitigate these disorders through preventive stress management and enhanced wellbeing. This article addresses, first, the known health risk evidence related to occupational stress; second, the use of preventive stress management in organizations as the framework for intervention; and third, the emerging domain of enhancing wellbeing, which strengthens the individual. Premature death and disability along with chronic suffering from occupational stress are not inevitable, despite being known outcome risks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19377, Arlington, TX 76019, USA. jquick@uta.edu.|Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, Manchester M15 6PB, UK. jquick@uta.edu.
authors.forename: James Campbell
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Quick
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19467, Arlington, TX 76019, USA. henderson@uta.edu.
authors.forename: Demetria F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D016272:Occupational Health; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: occupational health; occupational stress; prevention; preventive stress management; stress; wellbeing