Stress: Personal Demands

In the last byte, we looked at home demands that act as sources of stress. In today's byte, we look at personal demands that act as sources of stress.

It is commonly seen in the work environment there are some employees who are workaholic. Workaholism is defined as an imbalanced preoccupation with work at the expense of home and personal life satisfaction. Generally this is self-imposed. Some early signs of workaholism include over commitment to work, inability to enjoy vacations and respites from work, preoccupation with work problems when away from the workplace, and constantly taking work home on the weekends.

Another type of personal demand comes from civic activities, volunteer work, non organizational commitments etc these demands become more or less stressful depending on their compatibility with the person's work and family life and their capacity to provide alternative satisfactions for the person.

Certain situations like job loss, examination failures, termination of romantic attachments etc are all traumatic and could lead to distress if these are not addressed and resolved.