Coping with Job Stress

The psychological process of dealing with job stressors in order to reduce strain or negative health effects is called coping. More specially, coping with job stress refers to mental and behavioral strategies of employees to handle the stressors they encounter at work. Coping with job stress involves the dynamic interplay of the employee and his or her job environment or work setting that is appraised as stressful in terms of harm, threat, or loss. More recent conceptualizations of coping broaden the concept by emphasizing its proactive nature, that is, the mastery of positively appraised challenging demands.