Anger In The News

Are women overworked on the job?

According to recent research, women are more likely to be overworked than men, even though men work longer hours. The crucial difference may be that women report that their jobs more often require mutli-tasking much more often than is the case with men. When women and men with equal multi-tasking jobs were compared, gender differences disappeared, suggesting that more multi-tasking may explain the greater liklihood for women to be overworked.

Full report at The American Institute of Stress.

Do Work Deadlines Increase Risk Of Heart Attack?

In a word, the answer may be "yes." In a recent study in Sweden, it was found that an intense impending high-pressure deadline icnreased the risk of a heart attack within the next 24 hours by a factor of six in men and three in women.

Original study in J. Epidemiol. Community Health, Jan 2005; 59:23 - 30. Study summarized and reported in The Newsletter of The American Institute of Stress.

Do Vacations Reduce Work Stress?

According to new data from the American Institute of Stress, many people who have paid vacations coming do not take their full time. In fact, one study concluded that "Americans are the most vacation-starved people in the industrialized world." In fact,  statistics from the World Tourism organization list the following average annual vacation days for various countries: Italy (42), France (37), Germany (35), Brazil (34), Britain (28), Canada (26), South Korea (25), Japan (25), with the U. S. being last at 13.

Yet, vacations are good for your health. The famed Framingham Heart Study data of women aged 45-64 showed that frequent vacations cut risk of death among all women by half. Another study from the State University of New York at Oswego published in 2000 foud that regular vacations lowered risk of death by almost 20% in 35-37 year-old men.

More on stress, vacations, and work pressure at The American Institute of Stress.

Work pressures: Major Source Of Stress

Feeling tired at work? If so, you are not alone. Studies show that Americans are working longer hours, take fewer vacations, and have less leisure time to unwind.  In fact, 44% of U.S. employees felt overworked "often" or "very often." How does feeling overworked affect job performance? In one study, overworked persons were more likely to make mistakes at work,  feel angry at their employers for expecting them to do so much, resent coworkers who didn't work as hard as they did,  have higher stress levels, be depressed or have health problems, and  be neglectful with respect to caring for themselves.

Further studies have fouhd that the feeling of being overworked often stemmed from an inability to complete an assignment because of having to work on too many tasks at the same time and/or frequent interruptions.

Full report with many more statistics and studies available at The American Institute of Stress.

For resources to help individuals and companies deal with workplace stress, visit Dr Fiore & Associates or AJNovickGroup.

Stay In The Pink: Develop Empathy

In his new book, "A Whole New Mind, " Daniel Pink argues that "empathy" is one of the six essential aptitudes it will take for individuals and organizations to survive in the future - in the "information age."

Empathy is part of "emotional intelligence"- a concept developed by psychologist Daniel Goleman to predict success and happiness in both business and personal life.

At Century Anger Management, we teach "empathy" as one of the 8 core tools of anger and stress control. (Click here for a list of the eight tools.). To download our  new e-book with exercises on effective ways to develop empathy, click here.