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Life Stress and Industrial Accidents

Traditional personality research on accident behavior has produced conflicting opinions as to the traits that describe the "accident-prone" personality type. Other research has shown that psychosocial life stress, while partially determining the temporal onset of a variety of illnesses, may also be a factor contributing to increased accident liability. This study examined the role of temporary and stress-producing life changes in groups of accident-free and accident-involved industrial employees. The accident sample was found to have significantly higher stress over baseline during the period of accident involvement, but generally lower pre-accident levels than the non-accident sample. A cause-effect analysis of the data from within the accident-involved sample proved inconclusive. Several implications for future research and managerial actions to alleviate stress were also discussed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504035
Date05 1900
CreatorsHuddleston, Charles T.
ContributorsJohnson, Douglas A., Critelli, Joseph W., Houck, Robert L.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 32 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Huddleston, Charles T., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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