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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 84(1 Pt 2): 017101, 2011 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21867344
ABSTRACT
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.