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Most people spend much of their waking lives involved in paid employment. Therefore, work is a context that demands our collective attention. For some time we have recognized that many individuals experience stress while engaging in paid employment. Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek, and Rosenthal (1964) estimated that at any point in time, one third of the working population experience chronic stress, and there is no reason to suspect that any reduction in this number of people has taken place.
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Hepburn, C.G., Loughlin, C.A., Barling, J. (1997). Coping with Chronic Work Stress. In: Gottlieb, B.H. (eds) Coping with Chronic Stress. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9862-3_13
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