41. In the context of preventive stress management, a manager's decision to increase worker control in a given task is an example of:
a. individual prevention. b. secondary prevention. c. primary prevention.
d. tertiary prevention.
42. Secondary prevention is intended to:
a. reduce, modify, or eliminate the demand causing stress.
b. alter or modify an individual's or the an organization's response to a demand. c. heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain.
d. eliminate key environmental sources of stress or provide direct intervention to reduce the source of stress.
43. The stage in preventive stress management designed to heal individual or organizational symptoms of distress and strain is called:
a. primary prevention.
b. secondary prevention. c. tertiary prevention.
d. job redesign.
44. A secondary prevention method of organizational stress is:
a. job redesign.
b. role negotiation. c. goal setting.
d. team building.
45. Job redesign as a stress prevention method may involve any one or all of the following except:
a. changing the schedule of work and the sequencing of tasks. b. giving the worker inspection responsibility.
c. reducing job tasks.
d. increasing uncertainty and reducing predictability in the workplace.
46. In the context of social support system, the relationship between a person and the key elements in his or her work and nonwork social support system provides .
a. evaluative feedback b. focal role definition c. task specification
d. positive thinking
47. Job redesign, goal setting, and career management are used as stress prevention management techniques in the
b. primary
c. reduction d. secondary
48. The job strain model suggests that:
a. the combination of high job demand and high employee control lead to a high-strain job. b. low self-determination and self-reliance leads to a low-strain job.
c. an active job is associated with high strain.
d. the combination of high job demand and restricted job decision latitude leads to a high-strain job.
49. In the context of stress prevention management, most organizational prevention is:
a. secondary. b. primary.
c. tertiary.
d. counterproductive.
50. In the context of individual stress prevention management, learned optimism is:
a. a secondary individual stress prevention method. b. the planning and prioritizing of tasks.
c. distracting oneself from pessimistic thoughts. d. is a strong Type A personality characteristic.