Job stress is caused by so many factors or forces and they are called stressors. These stressors tend to threaten the existence and well-being of the individual and the way he/she responds to the threat (Lazarus, 1966). The major sources or causes of job stress is categorized into the physical, psychological and environmental, it could include personal injuries, illness, lack of sleep, other deformities such as blindness, amputation and exhaustion and these tend to put the individual in an incapable state where he/she can do nothing.
Psychological
stress occur from reasons that comparatively trivial or even in the situations
that are pleasurable, while environmental stress involves noise from cars,
buses, lories and industrial machineries. Cooper and Marshall (1978) identified
six causes of job stress. These are factors intrinsic to job, role stress
(conflicts) relationship at work, career stress (i.e. job insecurity),
under-promotion, organizational structure and climate and interface between
work and home. In the same vein Adeoye (1992) explained that the three key
factors causing stress are factors intrinsic to the job itself, individual
characteristics and loss of control.
Frustration
is also another factor of job stress which is directed towards us by parents,
siblings, friends, co-staffs, machine which breakdown just when we need to use
it, the interruption when carrying our work which forces us to do something,
the score which we are trying to have that is not coming all of these are small
frustration. If these numerous frustrations become too numerous and we allow
them to affect us well, we will soon be faced with an intolerable level of
stress as dangerous as if it has come from one giant stress factor.
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