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Abstract
Job stress is a state of imbalance between a person’s work responsibilities and coping techniques that results in unfavorable physical, emotional, or behavioral responses. Job stress could develop due to worker, or work-related factors. Worker-related factors include personality traits, coping strategies, demographic characteristics, and life experience. Work-related factors include factors related to job content, such as the tasks design, load, pace and schedule, and job context factors, such as organizational role, interpersonal relationships, and home-work interface.
Job stress may result in consequences for individuals—physical, mental, and behavioral—in addition to organizational consequences, such as the economic burden resulting from turnover, absenteeism, and early retirement. Psychosocial effects of stressful job conditions include depression, job dissatisfaction, burnout, anxiety, and impaired concentration, which in turn affect the workers’ productivity and efficiency and threaten their safety at work.
Physicians have been facing many job stressors, especially since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several studies have reported increased physicians’ stress more than the general population, which could be related to their job nature, responsibility for people, fear of transmitting infection to their families, and facing inevitable deaths. However, the situation after the pandemic is still under study, and more research is still needed to assess the current situation among physicians. Junior physicians, residents, and medical students have been extensively studied for job stressors and mental health because of possible additional factors such as future ambiguity and lack of experience. However, little research has looked into the middle-aged group of physicians.