Monday, August 30, 1982
Page 14
Daily Nebraskan
UNL study tests effect of job stress on workers
By Jim Anderson
The electronic blood messure machine in UNkVs stress
lab had my left arm in a fairly effective velcro-airbag
torture hold while a wire relayed my heart rate to gauge
and speaker. A thermometer was taped to my thumb.
Wes Sime, director of UNL's stress physiology lab,
noted readings from the small bank of machines and
asked me to add three to itself until I passed 100 and
then subtract three repeatedly until I reached zero again.
A stressful situation, not just an ugly dream.
This is the last part of a test being given to Lincoln
firefighters to determine how occupational stress affects
behavior and health in individuals.
Sime said I was Normal.
Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of
Health, the UNL study is in its second year and should
last one more, Sime said .
Between 700 and 1,000 people, including police
officers, firefighters, white-and blue-collar workers as
well as union and non-union workers will be tested.
The stress test is given in three parts, Sime said.
First, an extensive questionnaire is filled out by a
workers, which helps testers determine his personality
and working conditions.
Next, urine is tested for catacholamines. Catachola
mines are hormones the body secretes when it is forced
to deal with various situations, like being pinned against
the wall by wild beasts. Sime said the hormones are
good indicators of stress.
Finally, a face-to-face interview is conducted with
a workers. Testers find out what is happening inside
his body, with the help of the machinery mentioned
above, under situations that simulate work conditions.
Sime said a person whose personality doesn't fit into
his job, whose needs cannot be gratified, is a prime
candidate for stress management. He said a study con
ducted on white-collar government workers in Lincoln
more than a year ago showed that stress management
techniques resulting from studies like Sime's work well
in practice.
The test can determine what conditions a subject
can and cannot work under, Sime said.
"It's a desirable test for those who want to know what
a person may or may not be able to handle," he said,
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though he added he doesn't believe the test will ever
become mandatory for employees.
Sime said one Lincoln construction company has
been particularly cooperative in allowing its employees
to be used as subjects for the study. The company,
which wants to remain anonymous, is allowing Sime
and fellow researchers Tom Mayes and Dan Ganster,
both UNL management professors, to test its employees
in Indiana. South Carolina and Colorado.
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driving, demanding types - those who supply stressful
conditions for others are usually no more successful
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Sime said he has no plans to test UNL faculty or staff
members as part of his study.
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