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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Stress - Strain Relationship

In the last byte, we looked at organizational distress issues. In today's byte, we attempt understanding how stress-strain would differ from individual to individual.

It is not extremely rare that we find that an event which may lead to distress and strain to one individual could provide excitement to another. These individual differences play a central role in the stress-strain relationship. There are multiple sources of these differences; some of them are as listed below:
  1. Gender
  2. Type A behavior
  3. Personality Hardiness
  4. Self-reliance
While the first 2 are found to enhance vulnerability to strain under stressful conditions, the other two reduce vulnerability to strain under stressful conditions. We shall explore these in the next few bytes.

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