The impact of work stress on employee mental health

2022-05-21

Human society has entered an era of rapid technological development. While enjoying the convenience of life, the pace has become faster and faster, social competition has become more and more intense, and everyone feels more and more work pressure. According to research, when the work pressure is at the critical point, the employee's performance level reaches the optimal value; before the critical point is reached, the employee's performance level is positively correlated with the work pressure, and the work pressure has a positive impact on the employee's performance; After reaching the critical point, employee performance level is negatively correlated with work stress, and work stress will have a negative impact on employee performance. That is to say, excessive work stress can have adverse effects on employees' physical, mental health, behavior, and cognition. So what are the specific impacts? Let's take a look together.

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1. Affect the personal efficiency of employees

Excessive work pressure is not only related to the normal development of employees' potential, but also affects their work efficiency. When the workload is too heavy and the work is difficult, employees will always feel anxious unconsciously, because they are not sure whether the work can be successfully completed. The shorter the work deadline, the more anxiety you get. With the accelerated pace of people's life, people's mental and psychological pressure is increasing. If the solution and guidance are not timely, some psychological obstacles will gradually arise, which will reduce the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of employees for their work, and even become depressed, lost, and doubt themselves. Depression caused by work stress can seriously reduce people's productivity, and can also make people hypersensitive and hostile to the environment. Depression that cannot be relieved for a long time may even cause depression, mental failure and other mental diseases.

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2. Affecting the health of employees, frequent diseases

Work pressure is often accompanied by staying up late and working overtime. In order to complete the work, employees have to sit at the desk for a long time, which also leaves hidden dangers to the health of employees. The most obvious feeling after working for a long time is fatigue, especially if staying up late for a long time leads to serious lack of sleep, which will lead to confusion in people's thinking, unclear logic, and look listless. When anxiety and depression are caused by work pressure, employees will suffer from insomnia even if they are very tired. If you can't sleep at night, you feel sleepy at work during the day, and you have to stay up late to work overtime, without a fixed sleep time, the biological clock will be very chaotic, and some diseases will be caused in serious cases. Due to being overly busy, the meal time is not fixed and the appetite is reduced, which will affect the gastrointestinal function. And sedentary and excessive staying up late, coupled with a tense office atmosphere, can easily lead to cardiovascular disease.

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3. Affect the harmonious relationship between colleagues or leaders

Without contrast, there is no harm. Every unit has complex interpersonal relationships. Subordinates misunderstand the authorization of their superiors, colleagues do not trust each other, and the leadership style leads to disharmony in the working atmosphere, etc. Being in it, I just feel physically and mentally tired. Excessive work stress can cause employees to put pressure on themselves or put pressure on colleagues. Some people reflect on the bad emotional reactions caused by their poor performance at work or the failure to control their emotions, which makes them burst into relatively negative emotions such as anger or sadness in inappropriate places; Compared with others, if colleagues have completed their work ahead of schedule, they will increase their anxiety and psychological pressure, and affect their physical and mental health.