Occupational stress is a big problem for organizations. As it is a natural phenomena of human beings, we would like to find an occupational stress measurement tool which can be helpful for employees, organizations, and HR departments.
See the occupational stress scale (OSS) developed by Wei-Qing Chen and others. It may suit your purposes; I link to some of their articles below.
http://joh.sanei.or.jp/pdf/E50/E50_3_06.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smi.898/abstract
Thanks a lot Emmanuel:
Good to find your prompt reply. Yes these researches will definitely help my scholars to channelize the things. Do you any idea that this research can be carried out using ANN tool. if you find something relevant in this field, please let us know. Once again thanks for your kind help. regards Prof Abhay
The leading body of work in the UK in this area is by Cary Cooper and it is extensive - covering a range of assessment options. Of course, just being measured is stressful, and many organizations view stress as an individual symptom to be tackled at that level, rather than a signal of systemic dysfunction.
A suggestion for a statistical model to work with the gathered data: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manfred_Diehl/publication/261066439_Reactivity_to_Stressor_Pile-Up_in_Adulthood_Effects_on_Daily_Negative_and_Positive_Affect/links/0c96053bdc0593cf19000000.pdf
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To develop a subjective scale rating for employees with stress, you may be interested in Q Methodology. With "Q", you can actually measure subjectivity and also use "Q" program for factor analyses. "Q" helps you to measure subjectivity relating to your own company employees needs.
Dear Patrica A Schafer:
Greetings. Thanks a lot for your kind suggestions. Definitely we will go through Q methodology. We are working with ANN modelling and once the results are there we would like to share with you. with sincere regards, Prof. Abhay
Dear professor,
you can also use the Perceived Stress Scale in its 10 items version. It is easy to use, it has been validated for occupational stress measures by Bellinghausen, L., Collange, J., Botella, M., Emery, J.-L. et Albert, É. (2009). Validation factorielle de l’échelle française de stress perçu en milieu professionnel. Santé publique, 21(4), 365–373.
This scale is short enough to be inserted in a larger questionaire and it is compliant with the Demands-Control-Support model (by Karaksek) proposed by Mr Bianchi. You'll be able to find several studies using this scale if you need to have some comparison.
Yours faithfully.
Dear Abhay,
As you see simple measures like touching your skin which enhances oxytosine excretion can serve as an uncomplicated way to reduce stress in certain professions. Probably a less greedy organisation with some generous although small gifts in the form of free massage could help:
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Dear Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist:
Greetings from India. Thanks for this wonderful information. I am heartily thankful to you for providing me some definite sets of input to channelize one of my scholar work. In fact we are focusing to generate an ANN working model to measure occupational stress alongwith providing remedy for the same. we are doing our analysis part. once it is ready i will like to have your feedback on the same. with good wishes from core of the heart. regards. Prof. Abhay
Thank you!
Sounds very interesting. Look forward.
Good luck!
When using Q methodology, you must develop a "Q sort". A "Q sort" is a limited amount of statements. One statement for each card of the Q sort. You gather these statements from the employees regarding stress. The process is to choose about 40 individuals and interview them about stress. Tape record their statements. Each statement they make can be a "Q sort" card. A good collection may be about 50 statements.
In order to understand the "Q sort" you need to read how to do this. Look up all the info you can on the internet. A Dr. Stephen R. Brown, at Kent State University, has written a lot about "Q". I suggest to begin there with Dr. Brown. You will also need the "Q" sort program for the factor analyses part of the discourses (statement cards).
For "Q" - it is like learning a new language. There is no one better to start with than Dr. Stephen R. Brown. When I was at Kent, I called him "Dr. Q"
Thanks a lot Renzo Bianchi. for your kind guidance. Definitely we are going to work out on the same. with regards
thanks a lot Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist for you appreciation. i will do update you. regards
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