Stress-related diseases: significant influence on the quality of life at workplaces

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers stress and quality of life as emerging. One of thefirst issues they prioritize mainly as a psychosocial risk is the changing world of work. We went to investigate if‟job contract” (traditional/atypical) increases levels of stress. The purpose of this study was to identify the possiblerelationships between individual and organizational aspects of work (self-efficay, engagement, autonomy andsatisfaction) and levels of stress in two categories of individuals, traditional and atypical workers, in order toemphasize probable differences, and to increase the efficacy at work aims to re-balance, when necessary, acondition of psycho- physical well-being. The results show significant differences. In fact, our findings obtainedshow different values: self-efficacy relates negatively to stress, which in turn relates negativly to engagement. Thestudy must be considered as a preliminary assessment for a study of broader intervention to increase quality of life.