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Assessing Stress At Work Across Occupations And Cultures Using The Occupational Stress Inventory Revised, Richard Hicks, Ali Sa Banci, Mark Bahr

Richard Hicks

Workplace stress is common across occupations and across nations. Culture is thought to impact on stress levels including what are common stressors, how the stress is experienced and what coping mechanisms or resources are used. However, there has been limited research examining these differences or supposed differences across cultures, and none that seem to have used a direct comparison across one professional area using the same extensive and validated questionnaire. One questionnaire that has potential for such direct comparison is the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised (OSI-R: Osipow, 1999) which assesses three main dimensions related to stress: “occupational roles” (stressors), “personal strain” …