Physical and psychosocial stressors can interact in complex ways to increase a person's stress.
Carrying a heavy physical load and encountering an aggressive individual amplifies stress beyond what each stressor causes individually.
The results indicate that:
- Carrying a heavy physical load increases distress and psychological discomfort.
- Encountering an aggressive individual increases endocrine stress, perceived discomfort and distress levels.
- When these two stressors combine, overall stress is significantly higher.
This interaction suggests that physical load can exacerbate the impact of aggressive behavior, significantly increasing stress.
For professionals such as police officers and military personnel, who regularly face stressful social interactions, unmodified working conditions could lead to an increase in chronic illness and violence.
It is important to take into account these interactions between physical loads and aggressive behavior to improve working conditions and reduce negative health effects.
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Sources:
The Interaction Between Physical and Psychosocial Stressors.
Abdelall ES, Eagle Z, Finseth T, Mumani AA, Wang Z, Dorneich MC, Stone RT.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2020 May 14;14:63. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00063.