Stress at Work Blog 2

 Summary:

  “Stress at Work: Self-monitoring of Stressors and Resources to Support Employees” is a research paper conducted and discusses why it is important for employees to self-monitor any stressors from work and the types of resources to support employees with their mental health and functionality. The authors of this research paper developed an online self-monitoring tool that is known as the Brief Assessment of Stress and Energy, also known as BASE.

The Brief Assessment of Stress and Energy is used to regularly evaluate your stressors and resources. They explained that BASE has four characteristics that will help distinguish BASE from other instruments. The four characteristics that were listed is that firstly, BASE does not focus on psychological complaints but only on daily occupational factors. Secondly, this instrument is an online and short instrument that the employees will be able to complete within a five-minute time frame which allows the instrument to become more accessible and easier to use for everyone. Third one consists of BASE providing direct feedback about your stressors, resources and personal characteristics that can follow up with information that is relevant. Lastly, the fourth characteristic that the authors explained in this article is that BASE has the ability to position itself into the organization in order to enhance implementation for follow up support within BASE.

It was explained in this article that the way they were able to get results using the Brief Assessment of Stress and Energy, they did telephone interviews, sent out reminders regarding looking into BASE, face to face counselling, conducted a regression analysis as well as sent out invitations every three months as a way to get employees to complete the BASE. After completed the assessment, the individuals were given a certain color that will indicate what state they are in regarding how high or low their stressors are. In the end, their research results were positive. It showed that BASE is a reliable and promising instrument that has the ability to make accurate identifications regarding high stressors and resources.

 Relate: 

This article continuously spoke about identifying stressors and finding the right resources to help stay in control of your feelings. Reading this article and seeing how stress at work is very common just tells me that no matter how much you love your job, there will be stress that will come with it as well. This article can somewhat relate to me because although my place of work does not have the BASE system, our managers never fail to reach out to us and ensure that us that we can always talk to them and sort things out if certain tasks become stressful. The only difference is that BASE is anonymous which will gain more engagement and results from employees and that my job requires you to personally speak to your manager about your stressors which can be both a good and bad thing because some employees may feel like they can't talk to the managers which can result in higher stress levels for that certain individual. 

Author:

Merel Marjolein van Herpen, Hans te Brake, and Miranda Olff

Harpen, M. M., Brake, H. T., & Olff, M. (2021, July 13). Stress at Work: Self-Monitoring of Stressors and Resources to Support Employees . Stress At Work. https://web-p-ebscohost-com.athena.rrc.ca/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=97e84b43-dba1-4785-950b-b04473e2ac6d%40redis


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