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April 12, 2024

Work Addiction: The Workaholism Syndrome

The term workaholism was introduced by Oates in 1971 by combining the word “work” and the word “alcoholism” to describe addiction to work. Until that moment, the…

February 12, 2024

The Teaching Profession: Between Work-related Stress and Students’ Educational Demands

Analyses among OECD member countries show that while 90 per cent of teachers surveyed are overall satisfied with their jobs, this drops to 76 per cent when…

November 28, 2023

What do we know about the mental well-being of PhD students?

Summing up, we can discuss two main points: (1) a gap has emerged in the literature concerning the mental health of PhD students, and (2) the mental…

June 12, 2023

The Role of Gender Differences In The Workplace During Different Life Stages

As gender is an essential factor affecting job satisfaction, organisations should better understand the impact of organisational politics to improve job satisfaction among different gender and age…

November 10, 2022

Why do we often feel (techno) stressed because of the use of ICTs?

Positive and negative effects of ICTs use: main evidence from psychological scientific literature.

October 17, 2022

The Importance of Mental Health in the Workplace

Being mentally healthy is more than the absence of mental health problems. According to the WHO, mental health is a state of well-being in which an individual…

September 5, 2022

Legislative & Social Dialogue Initiatives To Protect European Workers’ Mental Health

On July 5, 2022, the plenary session of the European Parliament approved a Resolution asking the European Commission to propose a directive directed at tackling the issue…

April 13, 2022

The mental health of workers with cancer and their caregivers

The occurrence of cancer has several pronounced repercussions on people’s lives. Diagnosis and treatment of tumours are very burdensome events that often deeply impact mental health and…

December 30, 2021

Fighting mental health-related stigma in the workplace

Stigma is a significant concern in mental health, and we should consider it a health crisis. People who suffer from mental health disorders experience stigma due to…

October 14, 2021

Why World Mental Health Day matters, and what can workplace leaders do.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises World Mental Health Day on 10 October every year. The main objective is to raise awareness of mental health issues around…

September 19, 2021

Journalists have mental health problems related to burnout, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder

A Dart Center report updated in 2019 cites several studies suggesting that at least 80% of journalists have been exposed to work-related trauma. The effects of covering…

July 2, 2021

Young Workers: Facing the Feeling of Uncertainty

The distress experienced by young workers that live in this condition of uncertainty, and particularly the mental health implications that can arise from it, need to be…

June 2, 2021

Journalism has a health condition and it is not COVID

Journalists are suffering mental health consequences from covering Covid-19 according to a survey from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the University of Toronto…

May 5, 2021

COVID-19, economic crisis and mental health

The current COVID-19 pandemic, and the public health measures implemented to slow it, have challenged the health and economic systems worldwide, with an important decline in economic…

April 29, 2021

Protecting the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs) should be a priority in the current crisis, as they are at the core of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Protecting the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare workers (HCWs) should be a priority in the current crisis, as they are at the core of the fight…

March 1, 2021