What are the physiological, psychological, and behavioral symptoms of stress at work? Give examples of each and explain why they occur

 

Signs or symptoms of work-related stress can be physical, psychological and behavioural. 

 

Physical symptoms may include:

• Fatigue

The feeling of getting tired. People may feel fatigue at work if he/she works so much. It could happen due to multiple works being assigned or may due to multitasking.

 

• Muscular tension

The feeling of pain in muscles of the body. It could be shoulder, legs or back pain and etc

This could be due to heavy works assigned requiring physical strength by which body uses muscle strength to lift heavy objects.

 

• Headaches

Head is not feeling well or sometimes called migraine. This may due to environment conditions. It is always comfortable to work with good environmental workplace.

 

• Heart palpitations

The heart of people palpitates and increasing heart rate. This may due to panic attacks or stress that is brought by stressing kind of work.

 

• Sleeping difficulties, insomnia

This is hardship in getting sleep. People do not know what to do to get sleep. This may occur due to overthingkin. Overthingking may be thinking too much of what to do for tommorows job, or the pressure of doing well the next day brought by work.

 

• Gastrointestinal upsets, 

Example is constipation. This may occur when there is an audit. You may feel uncomfortable with your stomach due to pressure of the possibility of failure.

 

Psychological symptoms may include:

 

• Depression

The feeling of always thinking bad might happen. This may occur at work if the boss always focuses on your work and always pointing your mistake which leads to your emotional abuse

 

• Anxiety

Stressful life situation like death of family and stress at work trigger anxiety. Negative experiences may also cause the anxiety at work. 

 

• Discouragement

The feeling of not trying things. People are afraid of doing things. This may occur due frequent failures at work from past experiences and thus feels being discourage. It may also due influence of people that surrounds him.

 

• Irritability

The feeling of being irritated. People with irritability may be easily feel anger may be due to lack of sleep.

 

• Pessimism

Negativity. People always feel negative most of the time. This may due to injury that may be happened at work. It could also be due to job loss. Or may be due to consecutive failures.

 

• Cognitive difficulties

Example is reduced ability to concentrate or make decisions. Not being recognized at work may result to concentration problem and thus make it hard to decide. Pressure at work may also lead to hard decision making.

 

Behavioural symptoms may include:

• An increase in sick days or absenteeism

Always feeling sick and tired. This may be due to pressure at work and not good work environment.

 

• Aggression

With aggressive behavior, you may feel irritable and restless. This may be due to past life experiences amd workplace environment.

 

• A drop in work performance

Work performances such as productivity is decreasing. You lost the ability to perform well and efficient. This may be due to discouragement brought by different stresses such as work stress, stress from uncomfortable workplace or even stressful bosses.

 

• Mood swings

We may feel swings on our moods at work. We sometimes feel happy and then suddenly gets anger. This behaviour may depend on the surroundings that influence us. Hot weather may sometimes causes us to easily get tired and thus easily get anger.

 

• Lower tolerance or impatience

People easily gets frustrated and has lower tolerance at work asdigned and thus feel less patience. Impatience occurs when we are dusappointed and that thinngs we expect happens to be different. At work, we feel impatient when we repeatedly do things and does not result to what are expecting to be. In leads to lowering our tolerance at things.

 

• Disinterest

The feeling of not interested. We sometimes feel disinterest at work because negative feedbacks are visible. At work, disinterest may lead to poor performances.

 

• Isolation

Feeling of being isolated. Some sign of isolation are deep boredom and lack of interest. Common isolation happens with people having physical impairments. People feel that they are different among others and believe it is much better to be alone