Work-related anxieties in research and practice
- Workplaces contain by their very nature different anxiety-provoking characteristics. When workplace-related anxieties manifest, absenteeism, long-term-sick leave, and even disability pension can be the consequences. In medical-vocational rehabilitation about 30-60 % of the patients suffer from workplace-related anxieties that are often a barrier for return to work. Even in mentally healthy employees, 5 % said that they were prone to ask for a sick leave certificate due to workplace-related anxieties. Future research should focus on workplace-related anxieties not only in rehabilitation, but more earlier, i. e. in the workplace. The concept of workplace-related anxieties offers ideas which can be useful in mental-health-oriented work analysis, employee-workplace-fit, and job design.
| Author details: | Beate MuschallaORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1026/0932-4089/a000166 |
| ISSN: | 0932-4089 |
| ISSN: | 2190-6270 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie : german journal of work and organizational psychology |
| Publisher: | Hogrefe |
| Place of publishing: | Göttingen |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of first publication: | 2014 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | anxiety; mental health-oriented work analysis; sick leave; workplace |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 9 |
| First page: | 206 |
| Last Page: | 214 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
