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Stress Management Intervention Program in Taiwan
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This study examined the effects of a stress management intervention program for managerial personnel in private sector organizations in the Republic of China. The problem investigated in this research was the assessment of the effectiveness of a stress management intervention program based in eastern philosophy in the amelioration of stress among Taiwanese managers. In this study, the effectiveness of a Zen Buddhist based stress management intervention program was assessed. The research results supported the hypothesis that a Zen based management training program can lead to reductions in organizational stress levels. While the research question was answered in the affirmative, the research results indicated that the benefits of a Zen based stress management program likely will develop over some extended period of time as opposed to yielding immediate positive outcomes. The research results reported in this chapter also indicated that specific demographic and organizational variables (subject age, subject gender, subject education, subject marital status, organizational job level, firm size, and subject religious preference) act as intervening variables in relation to the level of benefit that likely will be derived from participation in a Zen based stress management program. page 1 INTRODUCTION 1
EW OF THE LITERATURE
Literature is reviewed in this chapter in relation to stress research, stress and life events, and occupational stress. The results of related research are also reviewed. The studies reviewed investigated the effects of stress and stress management programs on different occupations. Zen Buddhism, which provides the philosophical basis for the stress management intervention program assessed in this study, is also reviewed in this chapter.
Stress Related Literature
Three classifications of stress related are reviewed. These classifications are stress research, stress and life events, and occupational stress.
Stress Research
Stress research is traced to the formulation of the general adaptation syndrome in the 1930s by H. Selye (Kaplan and Sadock, 1992, p. 574). As a medical student, Selye observed that most sick people appeared to have common characteristics, but that the "sickness syndrome" per se was not being studied (Selye, 1969, pp. 57 58). Selye based his theory on the concept of homeostasis, defined as the body's ability to maintain stability or constancy within its living organism. Selye (1950, p. 43) extended the concept of homeostasis to damage resulting from the interaction of a force, o
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Parasuraman Alutto, Spendlove Clark, Francis Milburn, Gaines Jermier, Pritchard Ilgen, Langner Michael, World Bank, United Taiwanese, Rabkin Struening, Kaplan Sadock, 1984 pp, air traffic, stress outcomes, stress management, job satisfaction, macbride 1984, 1984 pp 1 24, pp 1 24, macbride 1984 pp, occupational stress, business managers, traffic controllers, air traffic controllers, parasuraman alutto 1984, stress management intervention,
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