Causes of Job Stress

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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