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Chapter Title: OCCUPATIONAL STRESS
Chapter Author(s): SU MON KYAW-MYINT and LYNDALL
STRAZDINS
Book Title: Health of People, Places and Planet
Book Subtitle: Reflections based on Tony McMichael’s four
decades of contribution to
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4
OCCUPATIONAL STRESS
SU MON KYAW-MYINT AND LYNDALL STRAZDINS

Abstract
In 1979, Tony McMichael co-authored a paper showing how
occupational stress
not only affected mental health; it also exacerbated the effect of
chemical and
physical hazards on respiratory and skin symptoms. This study
was among
the first to place occupational stress within the same framework
as chemical
and physical hazards. It also showed that stress and mental
health faced
complex assessment challenges, but that these were similar to
those faced by
the assessment of exposure to chemical and physical hazards,
especially in
large-scale epidemiological studies.
More recently, occupational stress has been termed a
‘psychosocial hazard’ by
some jurisdictions in an attempt to place it into the existing
occupational risk
management and risk assessment framework. However, progress
has been slow
and regulation of occupational stress remains outside standard
occupational
health and safety practices.
This chapter reviews the current state of the regulation of
occupational
stress and compares this to the context in which McMichael and
colleagues
undertook their research over three decades ago. We then trace
some of the
challenges posed by mainstreaming occupational stress, the role
of McMichael

and colleagues in laying the foundation for future research and
describe recent
research undertaken in Australia to achieve this goal.
Occupational Stress
Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more
costly side.
Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual
counts of
injuries that we think of as ‘occupational health’. The ways in
which
work is organized – its pace and intensity, degree of control
over the
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work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among
other
things – can be as toxic to the health of workers as the
chemicals in the
air. (Gordon and Schnall, 2009, p. 1)
One of the first to recognise that the organisation of work could
impact the mental
and physical health of workers was Friedrich Engels. In 1845,
he published
The Conditions of the Working Class, in which he described
physical and mental

health problems of workers thought to be caused by the
organisation of work
and its social and physical environments. A few years later,
Karl Marx wrote
about how capitalism treated workers as commodities and how
this led to the
alienation of workers (Marx, 1988). Their groundbreaking work
informed
subsequent research into the health effects of the organisation
of work. However,
it was not until the 1960s that systematic and scientific research
into the impact
of occupational stress1 began in the USA and in Nordic
countries.
The origins of research on occupational stress came from a
variety of disciplines,
such as management, medicine, sociology and psychology. One
of the most
influential models of occupational stress, the Job Demands–
Control (JDC) model,
began with an article published in 1979 by Robert Karasek on
the effect of job
demands and job control on mental health (Karasek, 1979).
Tony McMichael’s Contribution to Occupational
Stress Research
Around the same time as the publication of the JDC model,
Tony McMichael
co-authored, with James House and other colleagues, a seminal
article on the
effect of occupational stress on health among factory workers
(House et al.,
1979). This research into occupational stress was consistent
with Tony’s lifelong
research interests into social and environmental determinants of

health, such
as the study on lead exposure in pregnancy and its effect on
young children
(McMichael et al., 1986), discussed elsewhere in this book.
This important work on occupational stress was among the first
to place
occupational stress within the same framework as chemical and
physical
hazards. The paper was a response to the insight that much of
the research on
blue-collar workers concentrated solely on physical and
chemical hazards and
had not considered how exposure to occupational stress might
influence, and
possibly amplify, the effects of concurrent exposure to physical
and chemical
hazards. In addition, while there was recognition at the time
that occupational
1 In this chapter, the term ‘occupational stress’ is used to
describe stressors relating to the way work is
organised, such as workload and role conflict, rather than the
reaction to stressors.
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stress was associated with many diseases in both blue- and

white-collar workers,
most research focused on a single health outcome, instead of a
range of health
outcomes. House and colleagues were aware that to understand
fully the range
of health problems associated with occupational stress and the
mechanisms
by which these effects occurred, multiple exposures to
occupational hazards,
including occupational stress, needed to be examined.
By way of review, the three aims of their cross-sectional
research (House et al.,
1979) were to:
1. Document the impact of occupational stress as well as
physical and chemical
hazards on the health of blue-collar workers.
2. Consider how these hazards combine either additively or
interactively to
impact on health.
3. Determine the range of health outcomes affected by
occupational stress and
how these are brought about.
Their sample comprised 1809 male workers who were not in a
supervisory role
from a tyre, rubber, plastics and chemicals manufacturing plant
in the USA.
Occupational stress was measured as self-reported job pressures
(workload,
responsibility pressure, role conflict, quality concern, job
versus non-job

conflict) and job gratification (lack of intrinsic or extrinsic
rewards, importance
rewards, control rewards, general job satisfaction). A number of
health outcomes
such as angina pectoris, gastrointestinal ulcers, neurosis, itch
and rash on skin,
persistent cough and phlegm were assessed using a self-report
questionnaire.
In addition, a subset of workers (n = 353) was evaluated
medically for
hypertension, heart disease risk, dermatitis and respiratory
symptoms. Type A
behaviour pattern was also assessed and was used as a predictor
variable.
Neurotic symptoms were assessed by the Health Opinion
Survey, and this
measure captured symptoms associated with depression and
anxiety. Exposure
to physical and chemical hazards was measured in two ways: the
first was the
industrial hygienist’s assessment of respirable particulates in
the broad areas of
the plant; the second measure was self-reported exposure to
dust, fumes and
chemicals, which were then combined into a single exposure
index.
Analyses controlled for age, education, self-reported exposure
to physical and
chemical hazards, obesity and a measure of the physical activity
required in
the job. House, McMichael and colleagues (1979) found that all
occupational
stress measures were associated with at least some of the self-
reported health
outcomes. Neurotic symptoms were associated with all job

pressure scales and
job gratification scales. Similar findings were observed for
cough and phlegm.
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Angina and ulcers were also affected by a limited number of
occupational
stress measures (role conflict, job/non-job conflict,
interpersonal tension and
self-esteem).
Furthermore, although not as strong, similar findings were also
observed
for occupational stress measures and medically assessed health
outcomes.
Work pressure variables were generally significantly associated
with
hypertension, and job gratification variables showed an
association with
hypertension and high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk
factors. The results
overall showed that occupational stress was associated with
increased risk
of angina, ulcers, neurosis, high blood pressure and other CVD
risk factors.
In relation to respiratory and skin symptoms, the authors
hypothesised that

stress alone might not contribute to these symptoms; rather,
stress might
interact and exacerbate these symptoms in the presence of
exposure to physical
and chemical hazards. Subsequent analyses examining
interaction effects found
that an interaction effect was indeed present for respiratory and
skin problems.
Where there was no exposure to chemical and physical hazards,
there was no
statistically significant association between occupational stress
and respiratory
and skin problems. In contrast, among those workers who were
exposed to
dusts, fumes and chemicals, there was a consistent synergistic
effect.
This work by House, McMichael and colleagues (1979)
informed subsequent
research on occupational stress, such as studies examining the
effect of
occupational stress on particular health outcomes such as CVD
and depression
in blue-collar workers (Kawakami et al., 1992). However, only
a few studies
continued to examine the relationship between both physical
and chemical
hazards and occupational stress (e.g. Bromet et al., 1992).
In contrast, since 1979, the majority of research has focused on
the impact of
stress on particular health outcomes such as mental health. This
has enabled the
evidence of the health impacts of occupational stress to
accumulate, especially
with several longitudinal studies being conducted. However,

much of this
research was occurring without consideration of how
occupational health
hazards were usually addressed in the workplace.
Occupational Stress: Beginnings and Struggles
for Recognition
Tony McMichael’s collaboration with James House set the
course for the
recognition that occupational stress was, indeed, a significant
occupational
health hazard. Although it was a scientific finding, like many
landmark ideas,
it had profound political ramifications. Other authors have
subsequently
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acknowledged how this political dimension has shaped the
extent to which
occupational stress has been viewed as a health risk that
workplaces must
address (e.g. Dollard and Winefield, 1996).
Much of the earlier research on occupational stress had focused
on individual
factors, trying to address occupational stress by focusing on the
individual by,

for example, increasing coping among workers. This in itself
placed occupational
stress in a framework quite different from other occupational
hazards where
the usual approach was to modify the work environment so that
most workers
were protected from unsafe levels of occupational hazards.
Similar to House,
McMichael and colleagues, another leading researcher in
occupational stress,
Dean Baker (Baker, 1985), argued that occupational stress
needed to be placed in a
similar context as other occupational hazards and that efforts
should be directed
towards those conditions that could be modified to reduce
occupational stress.
They noted that the focus on individual perception and
susceptibility made it
seem that stress affected a special group of workers rather than
all workers, and
thus moved it away from the public health approach for
preventing ill health.
The controversy in recognising and addressing occupational
stress is not unique
to this particular occupational hazard. The history of
occupational health
and safety is filled with examples of hazards that have taken
decades to be
legitimised and become mainstream. Some of the early
occupational health and
safety legislation in countries such as the UK, the USA and
Australia came about
to address the high rates of occupational accidents in industries,
such as mining
and factories, by addressing hazards such as machine guarding,

ventilation and
inspection of machinery and equipment (Quinlan et al., 2010).
Similar to the
labelling of some workers as particularly susceptible to the
effects of occupational
stress, occupational injury itself was once controversial, with
the term ‘accident
proneness’ coined in the 1920s to attribute the cause of
occupational injury to
deficiencies in individual workers, rather than to place the onus
on employers
to provide a safe work environment.
For policy or legislative interventions relating to occupational
hazards that cause
non-traumatic health outcomes, accumulation of the scientific
evidence and
the availability of methods to translate scientific evidence into
practical tools
that can be applied in workplaces are usually required. Workers
who became
sick from exposure to hazardous substances were once told that
they were
‘hypersusceptible’, or that it was their diet and hygiene causing
their health
problems (Corn, 1992). This enabled employers to refrain from
taking action
to reduce exposure to slate dust. For example, for many decades
the US cotton
industry denied the link between exposure to cotton dust and
byssinosis. It was
only when British researchers, who found a link between cotton
dust exposure
and byssinosis in the UK, began conducting studies in the USA
that the industry
eventually accepted that exposure to cotton dust should be

reduced.
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So far, occupational stress has followed a similar trend as other
occupational
disease-causing hazards. Despite the strong evidence linking
occupational stress
to a number of health outcomes, the political nature of the
issue, including
the questioning of the scientific evidence by industry, has led to
delayed
action. Even when occupational stress is widely acknowledged
as a hazard to
be addressed, it remains difficult to regulate and provide
practical advice for
workplaces because, so far, it remains outside of regulatory
frameworks in most
countries.
Policy Approaches to Occupational Stress
At the time of this important research by House, McMichael and
colleagues
(1979), the focus of occupational health and safety legislation
was still primarily
on occupational injury and physical ill health. The first health
and safety
legislation in the UK during the 1800s, and on which initial

Australian health
and safety legislation was based, dealt with protecting children
and women.2
Later, health and safety legislation dealt with physical hazards
such as machine-
related injuries. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, the main focus of
health and
safety legislation in most industrialised countries was on
reducing the risk of
physical injury, such as machine guarding, lighting and
ventilating work rooms
(Gunningham, 1984). Most legislation was limited to specific
types of workers,
places of work or operations.
Although legislative reforms in the late 1970s and later began to
incorporate
general duties of employers to protect the health and safety of
their employees,
there was still neglect of the work environment and
organisational factors that
could cause ill health, even though research into occupational
stress was taking
off at the time. The Scandinavian countries were one exception
where legislation
was introduced to regulate work environments, including
psychosocial working
conditions (Elden, 1986).
However, at the end of the 20th century, occupational stress
became an important
issue in the occupational health and safety framework in
industrialised
countries. This was, in part, due to the magnitude and cost of
occupational stress
(International Labour Office, 2000; Parent-Thirion et al., 2007).

There was also
mounting evidence of the health effects of occupational stress
from longitudinal
studies (Johnson et al., 1996; Stansfeld et al., 1999; Virtanen et
al., 2013).
2 More recent legislations, such as those limiting lead exposure
in workers, also followed on from attempts to
protect children’s health based on the evidence of the adverse
effects of lead on children’s neurodevelopment.
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Improved understanding of the health effects of occupational
stress led to policies
aimed at reducing exposure, such as limiting work hours and
requirements to
consider the design of work (such as workload). Europe has
been the leader, with
several policy initiatives to address this hazard. The 1989
European Directive on
Safety and Health of Workers at Work (89/391/EEC) made
reference to the design
of work and the organisational context of work, although it did
not specifically
mention occupational stress (Leka et al., 2010). In the 1990s,
occupational stress
was again indirectly addressed in two European-level directives

on work with
display screen equipment and the organisation of working time.
Many countries in Europe now have specific legislation
addressing occupational
stress. These include the Danish Working Environment Act,
which requires the
assessment of the psychosocial working environment to address
occupational
stress, and the Law on Health and Safety in Germany, which
defines health
and safety risks to include forms of work, the amount of work
and working
time. More specific mentions and requirements to address
occupational stress
were seen in Italy, with a mandatory assessment of occupational
stress. In the
Netherlands, the Working Conditions Act and its associated
regulations state
that workers must be able to have an influence on the rhythm of
work and that
very high or low workloads must be avoided. In countries such
as the UK, USA
and Australia, there are direct or indirect requirements to
address occupational
stress with many advisory tools and guidance materials.
However, occupational
stress is still not mentioned specifically in health and safety
acts and regulations.
There has been some progress in efforts towards placing
occupational stress
in the risk management framework used in occupational health
and safety
(Cox et al., 2000). There was recognition that risk management
of occupational

stress could follow the typical risk management approach with
the first crucial
step of risk assessment. The outcomes of the risk assessment
process can then
inform risk reduction strategies in the workplace to reduce
occupational stress.
This risk management approach for occupational stress was a
major step forward
in addressing occupational stress; however, the nature of
occupational stress
still made it a difficult occupational hazard for which to assess
risk by those
used to dealing with physical hazards and traumatic injuries.
Consequently, despite the large body of knowledge on the
harmful effects of
occupational stress, it remains a major challenge. This indicates
that there is
a failure to translate the existing scientific knowledge into
practical action
and policy.
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Recent Research
Following on from the work of House, McMichael and
colleagues (1979), research
conducted at The Australian National University has explored

ways to place
occupational stress in a similar framework as that for physical
and chemical
hazards. Exposure to occupational health hazards is usually
addressed by setting
health-based critical exposure levels. Such critical exposure
levels are based
on dose–response modelling from epidemiological or
experimental animal data,
providing a quantifiable level of exposure in the workplace that
is considered
to be adequate to protect most workers. This approach is what
Baker (1985) was
referring to when he called for a public health approach to
occupational stress
… as was in place for chemical exposures. Having critical
levels of exposure in
the workplace enable both regulatory agencies and employers to
determine if
workplaces have hazardous levels of exposure and, if so, what
actions need to
be taken to reduce the level of exposure. An example is an
acceptable exposure
level for noise, which is 85 dB (A) in Australia.
Even though critical exposure levels provide a common method
of regulating
occupational health hazards, there have been no formal attempts
to identify
critical exposure levels for occupational stress. The lack thereof
makes it difficult
for both regulators and employers to undertake risk assessment.
Critical exposure
levels could also guide in designing and targeting primary level
interventions in
the workplace (see Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1 Levels of work organisation primary interventions
and where critical exposure levels can be used to inform
these interventions.
Source: Author’s work .
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A recent study (Kyaw-Myint, 2012) sought to identify critical
exposure levels for
two aspects of occupational stress: job control (the amount of
decision authority
and skill usage a person has in his or her job) and job demands
(primarily a
measure of quantitative workload). This study involved the
analysis of two
waves of data from 4,004 workers in a prospective cohort study,
the Personality
and Total Health (PATH) through Life study in south-eastern
Australia. Previous
research using this data set demonstrated that occupational
stress influenced
metal health outcomes using both cross-sectional and
longitudinal analyses of
the data (D’Souza et al., 2003; Strazdins et al., 2011). Critical
exposure levels
were identified using the benchmark dose method; namely, a
dose–response

modelling method used to identify critical exposure levels for
chemicals
(Filipsson et al., 2003).
In addition to attempting to place the regulation and risk
assessment of
occupational stressors in the same framework as other
occupational hazards,
this research addressed individual susceptibility, which has
been a cause
of controversy in relation to occupational stress. Individual
factors such as
personality and previous mental health status, age, gender and
socio-economic
status were included in dose–response modelling. Stressors (job
demands and job
control) were measured using a self-report questionnaire from
the UK Whitehall
II study, which was shown to have good predictive validity
(Stansfeld et al.,
1999). Mental health symptoms were assessed using the
Goldberg Depression
and Anxiety Scale (Goldberg et al., 1998).
The dose–response modelling undertaken in this study also took
into account
the shape of the dose–response relationship between each
stressor and mental
health outcomes. This is important because previous studies
have shown that
occupational stress can have a curvilinear relationship with a
variety of outcomes,
such as ill health or job satisfaction (e.g. Karanika-Murray,
2010). Job control
was found to have a linear relationship with both depressive
symptoms and

anxiety symptoms. Job demands had a linear dose–response
relationship
with depressive symptoms and a curvilinear dose–response
relationship with
anxiety symptoms. Critical exposure levels for both mental
health outcomes for
each stressor were first identified. Of the two critical exposure
levels identified
for each stressor (job demands or job control), the most health-
protective
critical exposure level was then chosen as the final critical
exposure level for
each stressor. After taking individual factors into account, the
critical exposure
level for job control was identified as having nine out of 15
different aspects
of job control measured in the PATH through Life study (Kyaw-
Myint, 2012).
For job demands, the critical exposure level was identified as
having two out
of four different aspects of job demands measured in the PATH
through Life
study (Kyaw-Myint, 2012). However, the small number of dose
groups for job
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demands meant that the finding for job demands could be

considered only
suggestive. Validation of this finding with a more extensive
measure of job
demands is recommended for future research.
This research was first to adapt the benchmark dose method to
identify critical
exposure levels for different aspects of occupational stress. It
demonstrated that
critical exposure levels of job control and job demands could be
identified using
poor mental health as an outcome measure. These levels can
then be used in risk
assessment of the work environment, thus addressing the
difficulty in managing
occupational stress. In addition, it provided a method that could
be used in
future studies to determine critical exposure levels of other
work organisational
hazards and other health outcomes. Hence, similar to the
seminal work by
House, McMichael and colleagues (1979), this study on critical
exposure levels
for occupational stress legitimised occupational stress as
another occupational
hazard, enabling the risk of occupational stress to be assessed in
the same way
as other occupational hazards, such as chemicals.
Where To From Here?
With this 2012 study, risks associated with occupational stress
can now be
assessed in a similar framework as other occupational hazards.
However, the
challenge still lies in the acceptance of applying such an
approach to occupational

stress by employers and policymakers. The main focus for
occupational health
and safety remains more tangible hazards such as machine
guarding and noise.
Occupational stress, being invisible, is likely to remain less of a
workplace
priority.
The issue of addressing occupational stress is even more
challenging because
effective interventions require interventions at both the
individual level and at
the organisational level (LaMontagne et al., 2007). In many
smaller workplaces
and workplaces where occupational health and safety competes
with production
and supply-chain pressures, the reliance on individual-level
interventions, such
as personal protective equipment, over engineering or work
design solutions
is commonly reported (e.g. Lingard and Holmes, 2001).
Redesign of work to
reduce high levels of job demands or providing workers with
more control over
different aspects of their job will be harder to achieve than
individual-level
interventions such as providing counselling for workers.
Employers may argue that the redesign of work may not be
economically or
technically feasible because of globalisation and recent events
such as the
Global Financial Crisis (GFC), which have placed greater
demands on employers
to minimise costs and reduce pay and workplace conditions. At
the same time,

economic recessions, such as the GFC, have been shown to
expose workers to
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a higher level of occupational stressors than non-recession
times (Houdmont et
al., 2012). However, as stated previously, the challenge faced
by occupational
stress is not unique. McMichael raised similar economic and
political issues
when discussing the importance of the need to address the
health effects of
climate change, especially when there were no clear-cut links
between exposure
and health effects, as in the case of multifactorial diseases
(McMichael, 2001).
Despite the foregoing, there are encouraging signs that
occupational stress
and poor mental health are considered important issues in the
Australian
occupational health and safety environment. Mental health is
now included
in the definition of health in the model Work Health and Safety
Act, which
has been adopted by most Australian states and territories.
Moreover, the new

Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012–2022, which
is Australia’s
guiding document on health and safety priorities, identifies
mental disorders
as a priority occupational disease. Improvements in health and
safety through
better work design are also included in the Australian strategy.
This shows that
efforts to reduce occupational stress are gaining momentum in
Australia; there is
now general agreement by employers, workers and policymakers
that the issue
of occupational stress deserves attention. Thus, Tony
McMichael, in conducting
his research into occupational stress, laid the foundation for the
work of future
researchers and contributed towards the recognition of
occupational stress
as a legitimate occupational hazard. His work also contributed
towards the
compelling evidence on the social determinants of health and
helped underpin
arguments made to address this issue worldwide (Commission
on Social
Determinants of Health, 2008).
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Women, Work and Stress: A Review and Agenda for the Future
Author(s): Mary Ann Haw
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 2
(Jun., 1982), pp. 132-144
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Women, Work and Stress: A Review
and Agenda for the Future
MARY ANN HAW
California Nurses Association
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1982, Vol. 23
(June):132-144
A review olfthe literature on women and work-related stress
was conducted to identify conclu-
sions regarding the link betw een job conditions conducive to
stress and disease outcomes, and
to suggest directions fr jfiture research. Defined as an
imbalance between perceived demand
and pe)-ceived capability, stress is viewed as an intervening
variable between conditions
c(onducil'e to stress, and responses and the more enduring
disease outcomes. Research findings
tire inconclusilve but suggest that work may have a beneficial
effect on mental health, and that
certain tvpes of-jobs in combination with family
responsibilities may lead to increased risk or
actual development of 'cardiovascular disease. However,
studies on women lacked specificity
on Work environment and onfamily responsibilitieslattitudes.
Future research on women should
involve (I) longitudinal studies before, during and after

cessation of employment, (2) specificity
about job environment and family responsibilities, (3) length
and continuity of exposure to
potentially stressful conditions, and (4) individual perceptions
and coping responses.
The past 30 years have witnessed a dramatic
change in the participation of women in the
workforce. During this period the number of
women workers in the United States has more
than doubled (U.S. Department of Labor,
1975). Women's work participation rates have
risen from 33% in 1950 to 53% in 1975 (U.S.
Department of Labor, 1977). Since 1965,
changes in the rate of participation have been
most accentuated among women in their twen-
ties and early thirties, and especially among
mothers of young children. Today, over 37% of
women in the workforce have children under
the age of six, as compared to 29% in 1969
(U.S. Department of Labor, 1977).
Coupled with a quantitative change in the
workforce participation of women has been a
qualitative change. Women have moved up the
occupational hierarchy, assuming jobs with
higher status and greater responsibility. In ad-
dition, increasing numbers of women are en-
tering nontraditional jobs, widening the scope
of occupations in which women are employed.
In 1950, women accounted for 13.8% of per-
sons occupying managerial/administrative po-
sitions. By 1976, women occupied 20.8% of
these positions. In the professions, the number
of women lawyers and physicians roughly

Address communications to: Mary Ann Haw,
R.N., Ph.D., Consultant, California Nurses Asso-
ciation Region XI, Emeryville, CA 94608.
doubled between 1950 and 1976 (U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor, 1977).
Much research over the course of the last 20
years suggests that work may be a significant
source of stress, and that stress may be tied to
serious consequences in regard to mental and
physical ill health (Cooper and Marshall, 1976;
House, 1974; Jenkins, 1971a, b; Kahn et al.,
1964; Kasl, 1978; Margolis et al., 1974). Fur-
thermore, occupational mobility has been as-
sociated with cardiovascular disease (Jenkins,
1971a, b; Syme and Reeder, 1967), although
the reported findings have not always been
consistent (Hinkle et al., 1968), and contro-
versy exists over the adequacy of the data
analysis in these studies (Horan and Gray,
1974). However, a point that must be empha-
sized is that, until recently, studies on work-
related stress either excluded women as sub-
jects or did not analyze sex differences.
In addition to the inattention to women and
work-related stress, there are a number of
other compelling reasons for reviewing the av-
ailable evidence and for pursuing this area of
research:
(1) It may provide bases on which to gener-
alize morel broadly the findings of previous re-
search on work-related stress. Evidence that
women respond to this source of stress simi-

larly to men would extend the external validity
of previous studies.
(2) Conversely, evidence that a particular
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WOMEN, WORK AND STRESS 133
finding does not generalize across sex may
suggest that there are important individual or
social environmental variables at play; for in-
stance, there is some evidence that women are
less likely to respond to emotionally arousing
stimuli by the release of epinephrine (Gray,
1971).
(3) As increasing numbers of women enter
the workforce, the more favorable mortality
rates for women may show a change. Women
may have enjoyed a more favorable mortality
rate, in part, because of their having a limited
exposure to a noxious environment at work
(Waldron, 1976).
(4) As women gain increasing occupational
mobility, they not only may be exposed to the
same physical and emotional hazards of the
work environment as men, but also may be
exposed to the pressures created by multiple

role demands and conflicting expectations. For
example, the burdens of housework and child
care continue to fall more heavily on women
than on men, regardless of employment status
(Hedges and Barnett, 1972; Vanek, 1974).
(5) Women, because of job segregation, may
be exposed to different work hazards than are
men. Despite evidence of an increased occu-
pational mobility for women, there has been a
continued concentration of women in a rela-
tively small number of areas that have
traditionally been considered women's fields
(Stellman, 1978). In 1973, more than 40% of all
women workers were concentrated in 10 occu-
pations, such as secretary, waitress, nurse, and
school teacher (U.S. Department of Labor,
1975).
A MODEL FOR REVIEWING THE LITERATURE
In this model for reviewing the literature,
stress is viewed as a complex interrelationship
among a number of variables, rather than as a
unitary concept. The model encompasses both
the Cox and Mackay transactional model of stress
(Cox, 1978) and the House paradigm of stress
research (1974). House identified five classes
of variables necessary for a comprehensive
paradigm of stress research which are included
in the present model (Figure 1): (1) objective
social conditions conducive to stress; (2) indi-
vidual perceptions of stress; (3) individual re-
sponses to perceived stress; (4) more enduring

outcomes of perceived stress, such as mental
ill health and cardiovascular disease; and (5)
individual and situational conditioning vari-
ables that specify the relationships among the
four sets of factors.
Embodying the Cox and Mackay trans-
actional model, the present model views
stress as an intervening variable between con-
ditions conducive to stress or a potentially
FIGURE 1. Model of stress for reviewing literature. The solid
arrows between the boxes indicate hypothesized
causal relationships; the dotted arrows indicate that social or
individual variables condition or
specify the nature of the relationships
5. Individual or situational conditioning variables, e.g.,
commitment to work,
childcare and housekeeping responsibilities outside of work.
2. Perceived stress-- 3. Stress Responses--
imbalance between per- physiologic, cognitive,
ceived demand and per- ? affective, behavioral,
ceived capability, e.g. , e.g., BP, cholesterol
perceived work load in (physiologic); denial
relation to perceived (cognitive); depression,
job skill to accomplish anger (affective); smok-
4,, it. efenses ing (behavioral).
1. Conditions conducive
to stress--actual work

demands, actual capabili- cO9 4. Outcomes--physio-
ties of the individual, logic, affective,
i.e., objective work load behavioral, e.g., men-
objective job skill. tal illness, cardio-
vascular disease.
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134 JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
disturbing environment (box 1) and an individ-
ual's response to the environment (box 3).
Stress is defined in terms of an imbalance be-
tween the perceived demand and the person's
perception of his or her ability to meet that
demand (box 2). An imbalance between per-
ceived demand versus perceived capability,
when coping is important, may generate the
experience of stress and stress responses
(box 3). Stress may be generated when the
perceived demand exceeds perceived capabil-
ity, as well as when the demand is perceived to

fall short of that capability. Responses to stress
are both physiological and psychological, the
latter involving cognitive, affective, or behav-
ioral responses, or a combination of these.
These responses are attempts at directly alter-
ing the source of stress (coping), altering the
perception of it (defenses), or both. If coping
techniques or defense mechanisms are ineffec-
tive, stress is prolonged, which may lead to
abnormal responses such as elevated blood
pressure, smoking, or psychological depres-
sion. The occurrence of these abnormal re-
sponses in conjunction with prolonged expo-
sure to stress may lead to permanent functional
and structural damage (box 4), such as chronic
mental illness or cardiovascular disease. The
development of a consequent disease outcome
may, in turn, influence the perception of stress
on the job (box 2), emphasizing the feedback
element in the model.

However, not all individuals perceive a par-
ticular work situation as stressful, nor do those
who perceive it as stressful react with similar
responses or with the same type and degree of
outcomes, such as physical disease or mental
illness. Important individual or situational
variables (box 5) may condition or specify the
nature of the relationships in the model. For
instance, individuals with a high commitment
to work may find underutilization of their skills
on the job frustrating and stressful, whereas
individuals with a low commitment to work
may find it tolerable. Situationally, women
with major family responsibilities and heavy
role demands at home may find a particular
workload on the job overwhelming, whereas
their unmarried counterparts may find it chal-
lenging. With regard to responses, some work-
ers may react to an overwhelming workload by
delegating work and making other direct at-
tempts to reduce it, whereas others may handle
the same situation by working at a more rapid
pace and putting in overtime hours. Finally,
some individuals subjected to stress over long
periods of time may develop rheumatoid ar-
thritis and others, cardiovascular disease. Out-
come may be influenced not only by psycho-
logical predispositions and coping techniques,
but also by genetic and possibly other physio-
logical predispositions to disease.
REVIEW OF RELEVANT STUDIES
A computer search of all the relevant medi-

cal and social science journals was conducted
for studies that concerned women, employ-
ment, and work-related stress. In addition,
studies were included that concerned women,
employment, and variables that have been as-
sociated with work-related stress in previous
research primarily involving male respondents.
This broad-based search strategy was adopted
because of the different classes of variables
that must be considered in a model of stress
research. Evidence was sought regarding all
links in the model. However, some links es-
sentially were not addressed in the studies,
most notably the first link between conditions
conducive to stress and perceived stress. Most
of the studies reviewed concerned employment
or some facet of the work environment among
women in relation to responses and outcomes
that have been associated with work-related
stress, primarily among male respondents in
previous research, such as psychological
symptoms, cardiovascular risk factors, mental
illness, and cardiovascular disease. Although
work-related stress was rarely a major focus in
the studies surveyed, it was often presumed or
implied. In addition, there was a sizable
number of studies concerning situational vari-
ables that primarily were presented under the
rubric of family responsibilities and prolifera.
tion of role demands for the working woman.
Because of the gaps in the literature on women
and work-related stress, this review is orga-
nized in the following fashion:
* Conditions conducive to stress and
responses/outcomes

* Perceived stress and responses/outcomes
* The link between responses and outcomes
* Situational variables (primarily family re-
sponsibilities)
* Male-female comparisons
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The purpose of this review is to identify con-
clusions that may be drawn about work-related
stress and women, and to provide a basis on
which to broaden existing literature on work-
related stress. Furthermore, the purpose is to
suggest the direction of future research on
women and work-related stress.
In this review, the word "work" used in re-
lation to women refers to work or employment
outside the home. This is not meant to imply,
however, that women who remain at home do
not work.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
A number of general observations can be
made about studies of work-related stress and
women in comparison to the literature on job
stress in general. First, there are many fewer

studies on work-related stress concerning
women: for every study concerning women
and work-related stress in the last decade,
there have been roughly six concerning men.
Second, the studies on work-related stress
and women tend to concern less specific fac-
tors of the job environment than do the studies
concerning men. Many of the studies on
women concern employment/occupational
status or rough measures of workload in rela-
tion to a number of dependent variables, the
implication being that employment or oc-
cupation per se is stressful for women. These
studies on men, however, tend to concern
more specific variables on the job, such as
work overload, underutilization of skills, and
role conflict.
Third, studies on women often span both
work and home-related roles. The literature on
job stress and men rarely concerns the overlap
between work and family. Although this inat-
tention may highlight a fertile area for investi-
gation among men, it suggests differential role
demands for the working woman vis-h-vis the
working man.
Finally, over one-third of the studies re-
viewed concern, in some way, the proliferation
of role demands for the working woman. In
addition, a number of the studies point to the
more negative attitudes toward work and lower
job satisfaction among women in comparison
to men. Yet few of these studies link multiple
role demands or work attitudes to the more

enduring outcome variables, such as car-
diovascular disease or mental illness.
Similar to the weaknesses in studies of
work-related stress on men, two general limi-
tations may be found in the literature on
women. With one notable exception, the
studies are primarily cross-sectional in design
and correlational in analysis. As with most
studies of this type, the sequence of events
frequently is indeterminant. Which variable
precedes another in time cannot be inferred
with any degree of confidence. In addition,
these studies generally were conducted on
small or non-representative groups, limiting
the ability to generalize the findings to larger
groups of women.
CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO STRESS AND
RESPON SES/O UTCOM ES
Employment and Physiological Response
The only physiological response to work-
related stress addressed in the literature on
women was blood pressure. Two studies-the
Framingham study (Haynes and Feinleib,
1980), and one among black and white women
living in Detroit (Hauenstein et al., 1977)-
addressed the link between employment and
blood pressure levels. In both studies, working
women and housewives showed no differences
in blood pressure levels. Although Hauenstein
et al. found that currently unemployed women
(those looking for work) had significantly lower

blood pressure than either working women or
housewives (p < .025 and .05, respectively),
this finding was observed only among women
living in high-stress neighborhoods (neighbor-
hood stress was defined in terms of such vari-
ables as poverty, crime rate, and family insta-
bility).
Findings from both studies suggest that job
instability may be related to blood pressure for
some groups of women. Among black women
in the study of Hauenstein et al., job instability
(job and line of work changes) was positively
correlated with blood pressure (p < .05) and
negatively correlated among white women,
although the correlation did not reach statisti-
cal significance. Among white-collar women in
the Framingham study (racial composition not
specified), job instability (line of work changes)
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was negatively correlated with blood pressure
(p <.05).
Although employment per se was unrelated
to blood pressure levels, additional findings in
the study of Hauenstein et al. lead to the
speculation that individual or situational vari-
ables may moderate the relationship between

employment and blood pressure levels. Work-
ing women over 40 years of age with a strong
commitment to work (as measured by working
by choice versus working reluctantly) evi-
denced higher blood pressure than did reluc-
tant workers (p < .01). In contrast, both job
dissatisfaction and "not having done well on
the job" were associated with higher blood
pressure among reluctant workers but not
among the women working by choice.
Overall there is meager evidence linking
conditions conducive to stress and physiologi-
cal response among women. In addition to the
paucity of studies in this area, limitations in the
two studies available preclude any conclu-
sions. The Framingham study did not discrimi-
nate between full-time or part-time workers or
those currently employed or temporarily un-
employed at the time the physiologic indica-
tions were taken. Although Hauenstein et al.
found no relationship between workload and
blood pressure (workload as measured by
full-time or part-time work in conjunction with
number of children and number of hours spent
on housework), workload on the job was not
investigated.
Employment and Behavioral Response
There are several studies linking employ-
ment or occupational status with Type A be-
havior (Haynes and Feinleib, 1980; Shekelle et
al., 1976; Waldron, 1978). In previous pros-
pective studies, Type A behavior has shown an
independent association with coronary heart

disease among both men and women, even
when other standard coronary risk factors
were taken into account (Haynes et al., 1978b;
Rosenman et al., 1964). Because it is difficult
to ascertain whether Type A behavior is an
effect of work, a personality variable, or a re-
flection of a combination of these two factors,
the following findings should be interpreted
with caution in regard to cause and effect. High
occupational status has been associated with
Type A behavior among men and women
(Shekelle et al., 1976; Waldron, 1978). Fur-
thermore, higher Type A scores were found
among working women, as compared with
housewives (Haynes and Feinleib, 1980), and
among full-time working women as compared
to part-time workers (Waldron, 1978). How-
ever, both Type A working wives and Type A
housewives had similar rates of coronary heart
disease (CHD) (Haynes and Feinleib, 1980).
Employment and Affective Response
Generally, the evidence suggests that em-
ployed married women fare better emotionally
than do housewives on a number of affective
indicators. Employed married women have
greater life satisfaction (Rose, 1955), show
greater self-acceptance (Feld, 1963), and have
fewer psychiatric symptoms (Gove and Geer-
ken, 1977) than do housewives. Radloff (1975),
controlling for happiness with job and mar-
riage, found that housewives were significantly
more depressed than were working wives.
With regard to symptoms of stress, however,

working women reported more daily stress
than did housewives (Haynes and Feinleib,
1980).
Although employed wives generally fared
better emotionally than did housewives, the
comparisons with working men along affective
indicators were not as favorable. One study
found that working women experienced greater
physical and emotional distress than did the
men (Cohen, 1976), and another showed that
they were nearly twice as likely as men to
express negative attitudes toward their work
(Work in America, 1973). However, these two
studies reported general differences in re-
sponse to work between men and women who
probably differed on a number of variables,
such as occupational status, salary, and mobil-
ity, without examining the effect of these vari-
ables. Gordon and Strober (1978), comparing
men and women at similar occupational levels,
found that women reported more symptoms of
stress than men, such as feeling depressed,
having nightmares, feeling overwhelmed, and
experiencing stomach distress.
Few conclusions can be drawn from these
studies on employment among women in rela-
tion to affective responses. First, the generally
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more favorable affective response among em-
ployed wives as compared to housewives may
reflect the healthy worker effect. The criterion
variables may have been those that contributed
to seeking and maintaining employment, rather
than a result of employment. Second, the more
negative response among working women as
compared to working men may reflect the gen-
eral tendency for women to show a more nega-
tive affective response than do men. Previous
studies have shown that women generally are
more depressed than men and report more
psychiatric, as well as physical, symptoms
(Nathanson, 1975). However, the fact that
working women report more daily stress than
nonworking women (Haynes and Feinleib,
1980) suggests that work itself, above and be-
yond gender tendencies, contributes to symp-
toms of stress.
Employment and Disease Outcomes
Although the Framingham study (Haynes
and Feinleib, 1980) was the only, one in the
literature addressing the link between em-
ployment and disease outcomes, its prospec-
tive design adds strength to the findings. A psy-
chological questionnaire was administered to a
subsample of the Framingham cohort (350
housewives, 387 working women, and 580
men) at their eighth or ninth biennial medical
examination. The respondents were followed

for the development of coronary heart disease
over the next 8 years.
Working women did not have a significantly
higher incidence of CHD than did the house-
wives (7.8% and 5.4%, respectively). In the
analysis of occupational categories in relation
to CHD, white-collar working women were di-
vided into two categories: (1) clerical workers
(e.g., secretaries, stenographers, bookkeepers,
bank clerks), and (2) white-collar professionals
(e.g., teachers, nurses, librarians). Clerical
workers were found to be twice as likely to
have CHD, as compared to housewives (10.6%
and 5.4%, respectively). No such excess risk
was found among other categories of working
women (white-collar professionals and blue-
collar workers). Of interest was that the in-
creased risk among clerical workers occurred
only among those with significant family re-
sponsibilities (Haynes and Feinleib, 1980).
This finding will be discussed in more detail in
a later section (see Situational Variables).
Examining the specific facets of the job
among clerical workers, decreased job mobility
(fewer changes of job and line of work) was
associated with higher rates of CHD (p < .001),
as was having a nonsupportive boss (p < .001).
None of the standard coronary risk factors

(age, blood pressure, serum cholesterol, or
cigarette smoking) was associated with CHD
among these clerical workers (Haynes and
Feinleib, 1980).
Perceived Stress and
ResponseslOutcomes
The links among perceived stress, re-
sponses, and outcomes were sparsely ad-
dressed in the literature. Only two studies have
been reported, and serious limitations in each
preclude conclusive statements.
In a cross-sectional study of 799 Australian
workers (including male and female high
school teachers, factory and clerical workers,
and men in managerial and other high level
positions in industry), lack of need-value at-
tainment (the discrepancy between a person's
perceived needs, cultural values, and per-
ceived attainment at work and in life in general)
was associated with self-reports of symptom
awareness and visits to the doctor (p < .01 and
.001, respectively) (Otto, 1979).
It is noteworthy that semi-skilled women in
Otto's study (1979) scored the lowest in
need-value attainment, as compared with
other men and women, including women cleri-
cal workers. Although the Framingham study
(Haynes and Feinleib, 1980) did not compare

need-value attainment on perceived stress
among the various occupational categories of
employed women, clerical workers, not semi-
skilled workers, were the most disadvantaged
with regard to subsequent CHD.
A retrospective study in Sweden comparing
women with ischemic heart disease (IHD) to
those free of IHD provides some evidence re-
garding the link between perceived stress and
outcomes (Bengtsson, 1973). Nearly two-thirds
of the 1,642 women in the study were em-
ployed or had been employed during most of
their adult years. IHD was defined as having
one of the following: (1) myocardial infarction
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(MI), (2) angina pectoris (AP), or (3) coronary
electrocardiogram (EKG). Respondents were
interviewed regarding psychosocial stress
factors (similar to the Holmes and Rahe (1967)
"life-styles" inventory) occurring in the year
preceding the study or MI attack. The number
of stressors tended to be larger in the MI group
than in the reference group (p < .05), although
this finding did not reach statistical significance

in the AP group. The respondents' subjective
feelings of stress also were obtained in inter-
view by asking them if, during the previous
year, they had a "feeling of stress for a month
or longer, including tension, fear, anxiety or
sleep disturbances in connection with conflicts
in the family or at work." Severe stress was
defined as "a continuous feeling of stress dur-
ing the year preceding the study or the MI."
Subjective stress was more often reported
among women with MI and AP than in the
reference group (p < .001 and .01, re-
spectively). "Severe stress" was also signifi-
cantly more common in the MI and AP group.
However, women with a "coronary EKG"
(without symptoms, but having coronary dis-
ease based on an EKG) did not differ signifi-
cantly from women in the reference group. The
latter finding illustrates the weakness of re-
trospective studies, and could suggest that the
presence of symptoms (AP) or actual disease
(MI) may influence the perception of stress,
rather than vice-versa.
The Link between Responses
and Outcomes

Over a period of time, abnormal physio-
logical, affective, and behavioral responses to
work-related stress may lead to outcomes in-
volving permanent structural and functional
damage. Previous research on cardiovascular
disease indicates that responses such as ele-
vated blood pressure and cholesterol levels,
smoking, and Type A behavior are indepen-
dent predictors of CHD (Haynes et al., 1980;
Rosenman et al., 1964).
Among working women of ages 45 to 64 who
participated in the Framingham study (Haynes
et al., 1980), Type A behavior and
reactions-( I) suppressing anger, (2) taking
anger out on others, (3) discussing anger, and
(4) physiologic reactions to anger such as
headaches, tension-were significant predic-
tors of CHD. Systolic blood pressure signifi-
cantly predicted CHD among all women 45 to
64 years of age. However, only Type A be-
havior and suppressed hostility remained inde-
pendent predictors among working women in
multivariate analysis (Haynes et al., 1980). The

exact mechanism by which suppressed hostil-
ity leads to CHD is unknown. However, anger
symptoms and discussing anger were corre-
lated with diastolic blood pressure in white-
collar women younger than 65 years old (r =
.12 and .14, respectively), and taking out anger
on others was negatively correlated with
cholesterol levels (r = .14) (Haynes et al.,
1978a).
Although the Framingham study provides
the only evidence available regarding the link
between responses and outcomes, its pro-
spective nature strengthens the inferences that
may be drawn about antecedent-consequent
relationships.
Situational Variables:
Family Responsibilities
Although there are a number of situational
variables that might moderate the relationship

between job conditions conducive to stress and
both responses and outcomes (such as social
support on the job and economic adversity in
the family situation), family responsibilities
were the only variables given significant atten-
tion in the literature reviewed.
A number of studies document the increased
overall workload for the employed married
woman vis-h-vis the employed married man.
Employed married women have 17% less free
time (Szalai, 1972) and more often report in-
sufficient time for rest and recreation than em-
ployed married men (Otto, 1979). These
women spend on the average 5 more hours
during the week on paid work, commuting,
housework, and family tasks than men (Hedges
and Barnett, 1972). Among men and women
with an MBA degree who were employed full-
time, the women with families were more likely
to assume responsibility for household man-
agement and child care than their male coun-
terparts, and more often than men reported
worrying about household responsibilities
while at work (Gordon and Strober, 1978).
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Johnson and Johnson (1977) interviewed 28
dual-career families with young children and
found that wives but not husbands experienced
strain between their work and home roles. In a
study of physicians, one-third of the doctors
who were women and none of those who were
men reported that marriage and family respon-
sibilities provided the impetus to change career
directions (Nadelson et al., 1979). Relatedly, a
study of women in the professions (law,
medicine, and college teaching) found that over
half of them coped with conflict between pa-
rental and work roles by temporarily lowering
their career ambitions and perceived that their
professional involvement had less priority than
their husbands' involvement (Poloma, 1972).

Turning to studies that link multiple role de-
mands to mental health outcomes, we find that
the results are inconsistent. Gove and Geerken
(1977) found that psychiatric symptoms in-
creased monotonically with an increase in
number of children among employed women
but not among employed men or -unemployed
women. Radloff (1975) found working wives
more depressed than working husbands, but
found no significant relationship between
amount of housework and depression. In a
study of 144 married women in North Carolina,
Woods (1978) found that women's involvement
in multiple roles did not have a deleterious
effect on their mental health, except wfien they
received little support from significant others
and when' they evaluated their role perfor-
mance negatively. However, the cross-
sectional nature of this study makes it impossi-
ble to determine the antecedent-consequent

relationship.
With regard to role demands in relationship
to pathophysiological responses and outcomes
among women, Hauenstein et al. (1977) found
no relationship between number of children or
number of hours spent on housework and
blood pressure levels among employed
women. Although housewives who reported
tension about housework and being critical of
their own performance had higher blood pres-
sure, no such relationship was found among
working women, for whom the outside job
"presumably reduces the centrality of house-
work."
In the Framingham study (Haynes and
Feinleib, 1980), women who worked outside
the home with three or more children were
more likely to develop CHD than working
women who had no children (11% versus 6.5%),
and were two and one-half times as likely to
develop CHD as were housewives with the
same number of children (4.4%). Similarly, in
the Bengtsson study (1973), in which nearly

two-thirds of the sample population was em-
ployed, significantly more women in the MI
group than in the reference group had four or
more children.
Returning to the Framingham study, the ex-
cess risk of CHD among working women was
confined to clerical workers and only those
clerical workers with children. Clerical work-
ers who were single or married without chil-
dren were at no greater risk than were other
workers. Moreover, clerical workers with chil-
dren who had blue-collar husbands were over
three times as likely to develop CHD than
non-clerical working mothers (21.3% and 6%,
respectively, p = .004). No such excess risk
was observed among clerical workers married
to white-collar workers, suggesting that "cer-
tain life style behaviors and attitudes" (not
measured in the study) may contribute to the
excess risk among those clerical workers mar-
ried to blue-collar husbands. Perhaps blue-
collar husbands were less likely to help with
child care and household tasks than other hus-
bands. Economic necessity may have also
played a part; i.e., the element of having to
work (the reluctant worker). In the study of

Hauenstein et al. (1977), the reluctant worker
who was dissatisfied with being unable to use
her best skills on the job had significantly
higher blood pressure levels than did workers
by choice. In addition, women married to
blue-collar workers may have been more likely
to have worked full-time, with fewer interrup-
tions in employment, out of a need for income
than had other working women, and therefore
may have had greater exposure to the pres-
sures created by work and home roles. How-
ever, the Framingham study did not measure
the amount of exposure to work-related stress
among working women in terms of part-time
versus full-time work, and uninterrupted ver-
sus segmented employment.
In summary, the results are mixed regarding
family responsibilities as situational variables
moderating relationships among job conditions
conducive to stress and responses/illness out-
comes. However, the Framingham study
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(Haynes and Feinleib, 1980) provides the most

convincing evidence that the combination of
certain job conditions and family respon-
sibilities may lead to structural and functional
damage.
Several problems in conceptualization and
methodology may account for the inconsis-
tency in findings among the studies regarding
family responsibilities. The measure of the
amount of housework in the Radloff study
(1975) may have been too imprecise. Respon-
dents were asked to estimate how often they
had worked around the house and yard in the
past week (the four choices ranged from none
to more than once a day). In the study of
Hauenstein et al. (1977), respondents indicated
the number of hours each day they spent on
housework, but were not questioned on per-
ceived overload. Similarly, Woods's study
(1978) examined the proliferation of roles

among women but did not include a measure of
perceived overload. In previous studies on
work-related stress with male respondents,
perceived overload showed stronger relation-
ships with dependent physiological and psy-
chological measures than did objective over-
load (French and Caplan, 1973; Modigliani,
1966). Finally, none of the studies examined
the "executive" aspect of housework and child
care responsibilities. It is possible that having
primary (executive) responsibility for house-
work and child care may be an even more
important variable in the genesis of stress than
is the amount of time spent doing the related
tasks.
MALE-FEMALE COMPARISONS
The review of the relevant studies on women
yielded little to either increase the gener-
alizations that can be drawn from previous re-
search on work-related stress (primarily in-
volving male respondents) or illuminate major

differences between men and women. First of
all, the relative lack of studies involving female
respondents limited the possible comparisons.
Second, studies on women, for the most part,
concerned different variables from those in the
studies on men. In many instances, any com-
parative statements to be made about men and
women in regard to work-related stress must
be based at this point on one or two studies for
each class of variables. Therefore, the follow-
ing discussion of similarities and differences
between men and women should be regarded
as speculative.
Similarities
Similarities among men and women primar-
ily involved several relationships between re-
sponses to stress and the development of car-
diovascular disease. For both men and women
in the Framingham study (Haynes et al., 1980),
suppressed hostility and Type A behavior were
independent predictors of CHD. This latter

finding is consistent with the results of previ-
ous studies (Kenigsberg et al., 1974; Rosenman
and Friedman, 1961). Similarly to women in
the Bengtsson study (1973), men with MI's
demonstrated higher levels of life changes in
the year before the MI than did the comparison
group (Theorell, 1973), although the re-
trospective nature of both of these studies
weakens this finding.
Differences
Differences in regard to work-related stress
between men and women primarily concern
responses and outcomes in relation to condi-
tions conducive to stress. With regard to
blood-pressure response, married working-
class men anticipating job loss had elevated
blood pressure levels that remained high during
the ensuing unemployment period (Kasl and
Cobb, 1970), in contrast to unemployed women
(those looking for work), who had significantly
lower blood pressure than either working
women or housewives (Hauenstein, et al.,
1977). As previously noted, however, this
finding held only for women living in high-
stress neighborhoods. Furthermore, job insta-
bility (line of work and job changes) was unre-

lated to blood pressure levels among men,
contrasting with findings among women in the
same study (Haynes et al., 1978a) and in the
study of Hauenstein et al. (1977).
Turning to cardiovascular disease outcomes,
the review showed that the relationship be-
tween occupational work categories and CHD
varied between men and women in the Framing-
ham study (Haynes and Feinleib, 1980). Un-
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like women, among whom the highest rates of
CHD were found among clerical workers, the
highest rates of CHD among men were ob-
served among white-collar professionals, and
the lowest among clerical workers. Other
studies regarding occupational work categories
in relation to CHD among men show con-
tradictory findings; a number support the pres-
ent findings (Breslow and Buell, 1960; Syme

et al., 1964; Wardwell et al., 1964), while
others show no relationships (Bainton and
Peterson, 1963; Paul, 1963; Stamler et al.,
1960). Although nonsupport from boss was as-
sociated with CHD among women, there was
no relationship between these variables among
men in the same study (Haynes et al., 1980).
With regard to coping patterns in response to
work-related stress, men more often reported
problem-solving responses than women (p <
.05), although the investigators acknowledged
that work settings may not have been compa-
rable (Folkman and Lazarus, 1980). Coping
patterns in relation to health/illness outcomes
were not investigated in this study.
Finally, in the area of overlap between work
and family roles, the two studies on men dem-
onstrated a consistent relationship between
perceived stress (conflict between work and
home roles) and self-reports of health (Beck
and Cassel, 1972; Coburn, 1978) compared to
inconsistent findings in similar studies con-
cerning women. However, the reliance of self-

reports for all indices in the two work-family
overlap studies on men limits the conclusions
that may be drawn.
CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER RESEARCH
The gaps in the literature on women and
work-related stress are many, and few conclu-
sions are possible. Beginning with the first
class of variables (conditions conducive to
stress), the research on women lacks speci-
ficity about the job environment. Specific vari-
ables such as underutilization of skills, lack of
recognition for accomplishment, lack of au-
tonomy, presence of deadlines and excessive
hours in relation to responses, and the more
enduring outcomes of these stresses warrant
more thorough investigation.
There was no evidence in the literature about
the link between conditions conducive to stress
and perceived stress in women. Among the
studies on work-related stress in general
(primarily male respondents), there was gener-
ally a weak relationship between conditions
conducive to stress and perceived stress (Kasl,
1978). However, these relationships appeared
to be strengthened when individual personality

variables were taken into account. For in-
stance, Kahn et al. (1964) found that individu-
als who tended to have a high level of anxiety
experienced much more perceived role conflict
under objective conditions of role conflict than
did individuals who tended to have low levels
of anxiety. In future research on women and
work-related stress, it will be important to
measure individual and situational variables
that might specify or condition the relationship
between objective environment and subjective
perception, and between perceptions and
responses/outcomes, such as Type A behavior,
flexibility, supportive relationships with others
in the work and home environments. In addi-
tion, both the objective environment and per-
ception of it should be investigated to deter-
mine to what extent the actual environment is
implicated in the genesis of stress and stress-
related disease.

Few studies of women investigated per-
ceived stress (the imbalance between per-
ceived demand and perceived capability) as
either a dependent or independent variable.
Perceived stress was often implied or pre-
sumed, but it was rarely directly measured.
Because the individual's cognitive appraisal of
the situation may be one of the crucial links to
harmful physiological, affective, and behav-
ioral response-and, over time, the more en-
during illness outcomes-it is essential that
perceived stress be included as a focus of fu-
ture research. Moreover, studies dealing with
perceived stress should be prospective in na-
ture, as the knowledge of deleterious responses
or illness outcomes may influence the percep-
tion of stress. In addition, future studies should
attempt to avoid the "triviality trap" discussed
by Kasl (1978), in which the measurement of
independent and dependent variables are so
close operationally that they appear to be tap-
ping a singular concept.
Evidence regarding the link between condi-

tions conducive to stress and physiological,
affective, and behavioral responses among
women is suggestive, but inconclusive because
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it is sparse and it derives from cross-sectional
studies. However, it suggests that employment
has a beneficial effect on mental health for
women. To resolve the question of
antecedent-consequent relationships, how-
ever, longitudinal cohort studies on house-
wives and working women before, during, and
after cessation of employment are needed. The
present social environment involving the
gamut of career involvement among women
from housewife status to segmented, intermit-
tent careers and uninterrupted lifetime adult
employment provides an excellent opportunity
for such studies.
Among the studies on women and work-
related stress, the Framingham study (Haynes
and Feinleib, 1980) provides the strongest evi-
dence that employment may lead to functional
and structural physiological damage. The sig-
nificantly higher rates of CHD among clerical
workers suggests that jobs that are charac-
terized by underutilization of the individual's

skills, lack of autonomy and control over
working environment, and lack of recognition
for accomplishments may contribute to the
genesis of the disease, although these facets of
the job environment were not measured.
Moreover, the fact that the excess risk of CHD
among clerical workers occurred only among
women with children and among women mar-
ried to blue-collar workers suggests a complex
interrelationship among the following variables
in the development of disease: (1) the necessity
to work; (2) family responsibilities, attitudes,
and lifestyles; and (3) job conditions.
Future research should address attitudes
toward employment (having to work versus
working by choice) and the amount of expo-
sure (full-time versus part-time work and un-
interrupted employment versus segmented
employment). Furthermore, the whole area of
work-family overlap needs to be more carefully
conceptualized and precisely measured. Role
conflict (having to meet conflicting demands)
needs to be separated from role overload
(having too much to do). Sex-role attitudes and
the distribution of responsibility as well as
tasks among family members regarding house-
work, child care, and related family mainte-
nance functions, need to be measured.
The Framingham study (Haynes et al., 1980)
suggests that suppression of anger at work may
lead to the development of CHD. No other
studies were found in the literature that ad-
dressed women's coping styles and work-

related stress. The whole area of coping styles
at work in relation to health-illness outcomes is
fertile for investigation. Future research should
address which coping responses to perceived
stress (such as problem-solving attempts and
defense formation) reduce the effects of stress,
and for which individuals and under what cir-
cumstances they do so (illustrating the com-
plexity of relationships in the genesis of
stress-related disease).
Finally, the actual physiological processes
through which specific diseases develop need
to be conceptualized and measured. Relatedly,
outcomes other than CHD and mental illness,
such as allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, gastroin-
testinal diseases, and a general decline in
health-objectively measured by physical ex-
amination and laboratory estimation, as op-
posed to less reliable self-reports-need to be
included.
The trends in the participation of women in
the workforce indicate that work outside the
home will be an increasingly important part of
the lives of women. One cannot conclude at
this point that the increasing workforce par-
ticipation of women will not lead to increased
cardiovascular disease and other illness out-
comes among women. More research is needed
specifying the complex interrelationships
among job conditions, individual responses,
and role responsibilities outside of work in the
genesis of stress and stress-related disease.
With such directions for study, the results of
future research can provide a solid foundation

for guiding corporate decision-makers in de-
signing job conditions, and individuals in
structuring a family life conducive to health.
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Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun., 1982) pp.
106-183Front Matter [pp. ]Sex Differences in Medical Care
Utilization: An Empirical Investigation [pp. 106-119]Returning
to the Doctor: The Effect of Client Characteristics, Type of
Practice, and Experiences with Care [pp. 119-131]Women,
Work and Stress: A Review and Agenda for the Future [pp. 132-
144]Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Problems in
Studying Social Support as a Buffer Against Life Stress [pp.
145-159]The Estimation and Interpretation of Modifier Effects
[pp. 159-169]Women's Labor Force Activity and
Responsibilities for Disabled Dependents: A Study of Families
with Disabled Children [pp. 169-183]Back Matter [pp. ]
Black Women Talk About Workplace Stress and How They

Cope
Author(s): J. Camille Hall, Joyce E. Everett and Johnnie
Hamilton-Mason
Source: Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2 (MARCH
2012), pp. 207-226
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Stress and How
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J.Camille Hall1, Joyce E. Everett2,
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Abstract
Black women face the same struggles as White women;
however, they have

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