... Organizations can reduce incivility by supporting employees facing WFC through stress management interventions and POS-enhancing human resource practices. Promoting support structures may buffer cognitive overload and improve workplace behavior. Originality/value This study offers a novel moderated...

..., they are now characterised by overcrowding, sanitation stress and noise pollution. These issues have effect on vulnerable groups like women, children and the elderly, yet remain underexamined in mental health literature. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts a qualitative ethnographic approach...

...Abigail Gregory; Susan Milner; Jan Windebank; Marc Grau‐Grau Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the academic literature in two ways. Firstly, the paper will analyse the impact of the financial crisis on the level of flexibility, autonomy and stress of Spanish employees. Secondly, it aims...

...Emaj Uddin Purpose Social stress and alcohol/arrack drinking are interrelated and vary across the sub cultures or cultures around the world. This study aims to examine relationships between social stress and arrack drinking patterns among Muslim, Hindu, Santaland Oraon communities in Rasulpur...

...Emaj Uddin Purpose Social structural and cultural theories suggest that social stress induced from socio‐cultural status patterns varies across the world's cultures. The purpose of the study is to compare subjective social stress in connection with objective socio‐cultural status patterns among...

...‐life programs to help more than a small group of employees may be due largely to the fact that they feel like piecemeal remedies rather than pervasive cultural changes”. Elder care Stress Flexible working hours Social policy United States of America This paper deals with the toll...

... patterns of homelessness. Originality/value – The institutional approach to homelessness advocated opens new avenues of concern and research in both the comprehensive understanding and the acting upon this vital problematic. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Family Stress Homelessness...

... of stress, has been found among caregivers to people with different chronic ailments as well as people with HIV/AIDS (Folkman et al., 1994 ; LeBlanc et al., 1997 ; Land and Hudson, 2002). For instance, depression is significantly present among caregivers who care for relatives...

...Paul Bellaby Explanation of sickness, injury and absence at work frequently turns on “stress” and the individual's ability to “cope” with stress. A critique of the underlying ideology and science of stress and coping discourse (SCD) is presented. An alternative sociological model is put forward...