Prevalence of psychosocial risk severity, stress and cognitive dissonance in working conditions

Abstract

Psychosocial risks and assessment of psychosocial risk factors in working conditions are current issues affecting the level of mental health in connection with the performance of workers in all work areas. Stress theory, stress and the importance of exposure to psychosocial risks as basic research starting points and connections to working conditions, mental health. Effects of stress on learning and memory processes. Cognitive processes and cognitive distortions, the incidence of error and their influence on the reliability of the human factor. The importance of ambivalence on risk perception. The effects of distress, the role of defence mechanisms and alexithymia and their manifestations in the workplace, the transformation of risk stressors in working conditions, as less well-known dissatisfactions. Alarming findings in the area of the prevalence and sharp increase of mental illnesses recently as a result of social isolation (Covid 19 pandemic), but also workload due to increasingly advanced technologies and digitization of work activities.