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Stres prozą życia – analiza wybranych grup zawodowych w perspektywie zagrażających bodźców stresowych
Stress the Prose of Life – Analysis of Chosen Professional Groups in Perspective of Threatening Stressful Impulses

Author(s): Aneta Judzińska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Social development
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: stressor (stressors); professional stress; academic teacher’s (postgraduate student) stress; doctor’s stress; policeman’s stress; professional burnout

Summary/Abstract: Teachers (postgraduate students), doctors and policemen particularly exposed to intensive influence of stressful impulses for social character of the functions they perform. Basing on the literature of object, author enriches the analysis with his own findings. In first instance he defines the notion of stressors and then he tries to find and make them up in the form of specific threats, adequate for each of the above mentioned professional groups. His analysis is extended by the aspect of professional transformations taking into consideration their social-cultural conditions. Thanks to it the author shows the existence of relationship not only between the age of respondents and susceptibility on stress but he underlines as well how important place in human’s needs hierarchy takes the professional job. Frustration, fear, tension and anxiety destructively influence the psychical form of an individual effecting in negative consequence defined by the hereby article as a professional burnout.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 185-205
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish