Evaluation of occupational stress related to inducing of cerebro・athero-sclerotic diseases and the community-wide preventions

有可能开发有效和可靠的自我报告工具，以衡量跨越不同职业的压力，即“一般”压力。这项工作强调了人和环境的各个方面，这些方面可以通过学习行为来改变。这项研究的结果是职业压力调查表（OSI），它的动机是，人们在衡量个人如何对职业压力做出积极反应方面做得很少。我们根据以下社会角色和压力模型开发了三种相互关联的工具。我们推断，一个人对他们所承担的社会角色的看法在他们对这种压力的反应中至关重要。因此，OSI量表对于评估工作组或组织内的问题、个人评估和咨询以及家庭讨论或治疗可能是有用的。干预可以在模型中测量的三个领域中的任何一个领域进行。

It was possible to develop valid and reliable self-report instruments that could measure stressors that cut across different occupations, that is, "generic" stressors. The work emphasized the aspects of people and environments that were possible to modify through learned behavior. The result was the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI).The work was motivated by the fact that little had been done to measure how individuals mobilize productive responses to occupationally induced stress. We developed three interrelated instruments based on the following model of social roles and stress. We reasoned that an individual's perception of the social roles they assume is of critical importance in their reaction to that stress. The OSI scales may be useful, then, for assessing problems within workgroups or organizations, for individuals assessment and counseling, and for family discussions or therapy. Interventions may be undertaken in any of the three demains measured in the model.