Antiferromagnetic character of workplace stress

We study the nature of workplace stress from the aspect of human-human interactions. We investigated the distribution of Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale scores, a measure of the degree of stress, in workplaces. We found that the degree of stress people experience when around othe...

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Published inPhysical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics Vol. 84; no. 1 Pt 2; p. 017101
Main Authors Watanabe, Jun-ichiro, Akitomi, Tomoaki, Ara, Koji, Yano, Kazuo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.07.2011
Subjects
Humans
Magnets
Monte Carlo Method
Stress, Psychological
Workplace
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Summary:We study the nature of workplace stress from the aspect of human-human interactions. We investigated the distribution of Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale scores, a measure of the degree of stress, in workplaces. We found that the degree of stress people experience when around other highly stressed people tends to be low, and vice versa. A simulation based on a model describing microlevel human-human interaction reproduced this observed phenomena and revealed that the energy state of a face-to-face communication network correlates with workplace stress macroscopically.
ISSN:1550-2376
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.84.017101